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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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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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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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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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To gain your own voice you have to forget about having it heard.
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It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.
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Candor disarms paranoia.
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Taxi September along Jessore Road Oxcart skeletons drag charcoal load past watery fields thru rain flood ruts Dung cakes on treetrunks, plastic-roof huts Wet processions Families walk Stunted boys big heads don't talk Look bony skulls & silent round eyes Starving black angels in human disguise.
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None of us understand what we're doing, but we do beautiful things anyway.
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The best thing about being famous is that it makes it easier to get laid.
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I've got enough money to live where I want, but I don't want to move.Go out and have sexual adventures in Burma.
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First thought, best thought.
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I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd.
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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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Bob Dylan's one of the greatest blues singers of the western world ancient art, on-the-spot improvisation, mind quickness, endless variation, classical formulae, prophetic vision, mighty wind-horse.
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Others can measure their visions by what we see.
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