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There is nothing to be learned from history anymore. We're in science fiction now.

Allen Ginsberg

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Allen Ginsberg
Age: 70 †
Born: 1926
Born: June 3
Died: 1997
Died: April 5
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The apparition of an evil, sick unconscious wild city rose before me in visible semblance, and about the dead buildings in the barren air, the bodies of the soul that built the wonderland shuffled and stalked and stalked and lurched in attitudes of immemorial nightmare all around.
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Let the straight flower bespeak its purpose in straightness - to seek the light. Let the crooked flower bespeak its purpose in crookedness - to seek the light. Let the crookedness and straightness bespeak the light.
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Unholy battered old thing you were, my sunflower O my soul, I loved you then!
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Last Exit to Brooklyn should explode like a rusty hellish bombshell over America and still be eagerly read in a hundred years.
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To gain your own voice you have to forget about having it heard.
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What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families shopping at night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!--and you, Garcia Lorca, what were you doing down by the watermelons?
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Tell your secrets. [In reply to the question How does one become a prophet?]
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I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator.
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There should be no distinction between what we write down, and what we really know.
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America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?
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he threw up his hands and wrote the Universe dont exist and died to prove it
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