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Things are symbols of themselves.
Allen Ginsberg
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Allen Ginsberg
Age: 70 †
Born: 1926
Born: June 3
Died: 1997
Died: April 5
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I had a moment of clarity, saw the feeling in the heart of things, walked out to the garden crying.
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There is nothing to be learned from history anymore. We're in science fiction now.
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I know I'm not God, are you? Don't be silly. God? God? Everybody's God? Don't be silly.
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I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view.
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To get on screen with the Talking Asshole, quite a feat. And it's certainly going to be a cult film that people will be seeing.
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Many seek and never see, anyone can tell them why. O they weep and O they cry and never take until they try unless they try it in their sleep and never some until they die. I ask many, they ask me. This is a great mystery.
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There should be no distinction between what we write down, and what we really know.
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They [Nicaragua] haven't had elections because they are in a state of seige by the United States. They would have had elections if the U.S. had left them alone. But the U.S. has mounted a full scale war against them. So how can you ask them to behave normally?
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we're all golden sunflowers inside.
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Truth is dissent, where all power resides in the Big Lie.
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I am learning by the week, but my poesy is still not my own. New rhyme, new me me me in words. I am not all this carven rhetoric.
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The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does. By poetry I mean the imagining of what has been lost and what can be found - the imagining of who we are and the slow realization of it.
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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.
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This is the same notion - Catholic exorcism, psychotherapy, shamanistic practices - getting to the moment when whatever it was gained access. And also to the name of the spirit. Just to know that it's the Ugly Spirit. That's a great step. Because the spirit doesn't want its name to be known.
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Presumably, if you see spirit at the moment it gained access, then it'll be dropped.
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Nobody saves America by sniffing cocaine. Jiggling your knees blankeyed in the rain, when it snows in your nose you catch cold in your brain.
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The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive.
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Who can live with this Consciousness and not wake frightened at sunrise?
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I believe that we are put here in human form to decipher the hieroglyphs of love and suffering. And, there is no degree of love or intensity of feeling that does not bring with it the possibility of a crippling hurt. But, it is a duty to take that risk and love without reserve or defense.
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A naked lunch is natural to us We eat reality sandwiches. But allegories are so much lettuce. Don't hide the madness.
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