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Allen Ginsberg
Age: 70 †
Born: 1926
Born: June 3
Died: 1997
Died: April 5
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he threw up his hands and wrote the Universe dont exist and died to prove it
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Many seek and never see, anyone can tell them why. O they weep and O they cry and never take until they try unless they try it in their sleep and never some until they die. I ask many, they ask me. This is a great mystery.
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Recent history is the record of one vast conspiracy to impose one level of mechanical consciousness on mankind.
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Our heads are round so thought can change direction
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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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Last Exit to Brooklyn should explode like a rusty hellish bombshell over America and still be eagerly read in a hundred years.
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First thoughts are the strongest.
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The real America that Whitman proclaimed and Thoreau decoded.
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Unholy battered old thing you were, my sunflower O my soul, I loved you then!
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The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does. By poetry I mean the imagining of what has been lost and what can be found - the imagining of who we are and the slow realization of it.
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Holy the supernatural extra brilliant intelligent kindness of the soul!
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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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Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!
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Poetry's role is to provide spontaneous individual candor as distinct from manipulation and brainwash.
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Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.
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The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstacy is holy!
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Ordinary mind includes eternal perceptions. Notice what you notice. Observe what's vivid. Catch yourself thinking. Vividness is self-selecting. And remember the future.
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