“I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking through an empty skull... I wasn't thinking my own thoughts or saying my own thoughts.”
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America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?
Allen Ginsberg 
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My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.
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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.
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