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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 know I'm not God, are you? Don't be silly. God? God? Everybody's God? Don't be silly.
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The whole blear world of smoke and twisted steel around my head in a railroad car, and my mind wandering past the rust into futurity: I saw the sun go down in a carnal and primeval world, leaving darkness to cover my railroad train because the other side of the world was waiting for dawn.
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You are what you think about all day.
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Truth is dissent, where all power resides in the Big Lie.
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I'm an old man now, and a lonesome man in Kansas / but not afraid / to speak my lonesomeness in a car, / because not only my lonesomeness / it's Ours, all over America, / O tender fellows --/ & spoken lonesomeness is Prophecy / in the moon 100 years ago or in / the middle of Kansas now.
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Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.
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Marijuana is a useful catalyst for specific optical and aural aesthetic perceptions. I apprehended the structure of certain pieces of jazz and classical music in a new manner under the influence of marijuana, and these apprehensions have remained valid in years of normal consciousness.
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Unholy battered old thing you were, my sunflower O my soul, I loved you then!
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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 don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view.
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There is nothing to be learned from history anymore. We're in science fiction now.
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There should be no distinction between what we write down, and what we really know.
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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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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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The poignancy of a photograph comes from looking back to a fleeting moment in a floating world. The transitoriness is what creates the sense of the sacred
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Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight don't hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening.
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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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Presumably, if you see spirit at the moment it gained access, then it'll be dropped.
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Poets are Damned... but See with the Eyes of Angels.
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I really believe, or want to believe, really I am nuts, otherwise I'll never be sane.
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