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I am learning by the week, but my poesy is still not my own. New rhyme, new me me me in words. I am not all this carven rhetoric.

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 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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I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd.
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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 hero surviving his own murder, his own suicide, his own addiction, surviving his own disappearance from the scene
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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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