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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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To gain your own voice you have to forget about having it heard.
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There should be no distinction between what we write down, and what we really know.
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Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the secret unconscious life. No one in America can know what will happen. No one is in real control.
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Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets & eyes, while I walk on the sunny pavement of Greenwich Village. downtown Manhattan, clear winter noon, and I've been up all night, talking, talking, reading the Kaddish aloud, listening to Ray Charles blues shout blind on the phonograph
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The desire to have power dissolves. The desire to dominate people for love dissolves. On the other hand, it's a relief to realize you can let go.
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Let go of the spirit of the departed, and continue the celebration of your own life.
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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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I don't do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision.
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That's what the shaman said. He didn't know what he was up against. He didn't expect the strength and weight and evil intensity of this spirit, this entity, as he called it. The same way the priest in an exorcism has to take on the spirit.
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I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber,poking among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys. I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my Angel?
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I never dreamed the sea so deep, The earth so dark so long my sleep, I have become another child. I wake to see the world go wild.
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America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?
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The closet door is open for me, where I left it, since I left it open, it has graciously stayed open.
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It's never to late to do nothing at all.
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I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd.
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I want to be a saint, a real saint while I am young, for there is so much work to do.
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Now I have enough money to travel wherever I want, but I haven't got the health.
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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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You are what you think about all day.
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Who can live with this Consciousness and not wake frightened at sunrise?
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