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Mind is shapely, Art is shapely.

Allen Ginsberg

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Allen Ginsberg
Age: 70 †
Born: 1926
Born: June 3
Died: 1997
Died: April 5
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New Jersey
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Visions! omens! hallucinations! miracles! ecstasies! gone down the American river! Dreams! adorations! illumnations! religions! the whole boatload of sensitive bullshit!
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The censorship of language is the censorship of consciousness.
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The first person who really showed me the ugly spirit was Brion Gysin. The ugly spirit shot Joan because . . . and I never found out why. This Brion wrote out on a piece of paper in a sort of trance state.
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Sometime I’ll lay down my wrath, As I lay my body down Between the ache of breath and breath, Golden slumber in the bone.
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I saw the best minds of my generation who threw their watches off the roof to cast their ballot for Eternity outside of Time, & alarm clocks fell on their heads every day for the next decade.
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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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So I had a choice between going to a jail or going to a bughouse like a nice young middle-class student. So I chose to go to a very polite mental hospital. When I left eight months later, they said, 'You were never psychotic. You were just an average neurotic.'
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Poets are Damned... but See with the Eyes of Angels.
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To gain your own voice, forget about having it heard. Become a saint of your own province and your own consciousness.
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I smoke marijuana every chance I get.
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It's time we did something to assert ourselves. After all, we do comprise 10% of the population.
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A poem is like a radio that can broadcast continuously for thousands of years.
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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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An unnoticed corner of the world suddenly becomes noticed, and when you notice something clearly and see it vividly, it becomes sacred. (On Robert Frank's photography)
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The suffering itself is not so bad it's the resentment against suffering that is the real pain.
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he threw up his hands and wrote the Universe dont exist and died to prove it
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My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.
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Everything is holy! everybody's holy! everywhere is holy! everyday is in eternity! Everyman's an angel!
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It's never to late to do nothing at all.
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The combination of drugs, homosexuality, some good prose recited on screen. . . . In the sweat lodge ceremony we went through, did you get any glimpse of the Ugly Spirit, what that was historically or biographically?
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