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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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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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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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It's very much related to the American tycoon. To William Randolph Hearst, Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, that whole stratum of American acquisitive evil. Monopolistic, acquisitive evil. Ugly evil. The ugly American. The ugly American at his ugly worst. That's exactly what it is.
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Others can measure their visions by what we see.
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If I had a soul I sold it for pretty words If I had a body I used it up spurting my essence Allen Ginsberg warns you dont follow my path to extinction
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Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.
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Scientist alone is true poet he gives us the moon he promises the stars he'll make us a new universe if it comes to that.
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I didn't know the names of the flowers - now my garden is gone.
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America, why are your libraries full of tears?
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To gain your own voice you have to forget about having it heard.
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My books piled up before me for my use waiting in space where I placed them, they haven't disappeared, time's left its remnants and qualities for me to use -- my words piled up, my texts, my manuscripts, my loves.
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There should be no distinction between what we write down, and what we really know.
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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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Which way will the sunflower turn surrounded by millions of suns?
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I am neither romantic nor a visionary, and that is my weakness and perhaps my power at any rate it is one difference. In less romantic and visionary terms, I am a Jew, (with powers of introspection and eclecticism attendant, perhaps.) But I am alien to your natural grace, to the spirit which you would know as a participator in America.
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You can't escape the past in Paris, and yet what's so wonderful about it is that the past and present intermingle so intangibly that it doesn't seem to burden.
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None of us understand what we're doing, but we do beautiful things anyway.
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The actual materials are important. A book at the nightstand is important - a light you can get at - or a flashlight as Kerouac had a brakeman's latern.
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Affection is the most important thing. And the quality of affection - with your friends, your lovers, your family. But particularly for your own generation.
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