Allen Ginsberg Quotes About Literature
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America, I've given you all and now I'm nothing.
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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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Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.
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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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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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America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?
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The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.
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The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive.
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Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!
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