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From Quotes by Allen Ginsberg
- There is nothing to be learned from history anymore. We're in science fiction now.
- 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…
- Poetry's role is to provide spontaneous individual candor as distinct from manipulation and brainwash.
- in my dreams you walk dripping from a sea journey on the highway across America in tears to the door of my cottage in the…
- one must verge on the unknown, write toward the truth hitherto unrecognizable of one’s own sincerity, including the avoidable beauty of doom, shame, and embarrassment,…
- The hero surviving his own murder, his own suicide, his own addiction, surviving his own disappearance from the scene
- I learned a world from each / one whom I loved
- ...who passed through universities with radiant cool eyes hallucinating Arkansas and Blake-light tragedy among the scholars of war, who were expelled from the academies for…
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