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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of the night.
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Allen Ginsberg |
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The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude,
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Allen Ginsberg |
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I don't do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision.
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Allen Ginsberg |
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Everything is holy! everybody's holy! everywhere is holy! everyday is in eternity! Everyman's an angel!
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Allen Ginsberg |
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If I had a soul I sold it for pretty words If I had a body I used it up spurting my essence Allen Ginsberg warns you
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poetry
beat
poet
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Allen Ginsberg |
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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night, who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities contemp..
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Allen Ginsberg |
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Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! The world is holy! The soul is holy! The skin is holy! The nose is holy! The tongue and cock and hand and asshole holy! Everything is holy! everybody's holy! everywhere is holy! everyday is in eternity! Everyman's an angel! The bum's as holy as the seraphim! the madman is holy as you my soul are holy! The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice i..
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Allen Ginsberg |
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We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter
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madness
writing
loyalty
mental-illness
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Allen Ginsberg |
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I never dreamed the sea so deep, The earth so dark; so long my sleep,
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poetry
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Allen Ginsberg |
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I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd.
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Allen Ginsberg |
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What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families shopping at night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!--and you, Garcia Lorca, what were you doing down by the watermelons?
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Allen Ginsberg |
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What sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination? -
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oppression
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Allen Ginsberg |
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Which way will the sunflower turn surrounded by millions of suns?
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Allen Ginsberg |
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What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whit- man, for I walked down the sidestreets under the trees with a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon. In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images,
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Allen Ginsberg |
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My books piled up before me for my use waiting in space where I placed them, they haven't disappeared, time's left its remnants and qualities for me to use -- my words piled up, my texts, my manuscripts, my loves.
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Allen Ginsberg |
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Follow your inner moonlight, don't hide the madness.
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beat-poetry
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beat-generation
beat-poet
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Allen Ginsberg |
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Visions! omens! hallucinations! miracles! ecstasies! gone down the American river! Dreams! adorations! illumnations! religions! the whole boatload of sensitive bullshit!
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Allen Ginsberg |
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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 Western night
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howl
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Allen Ginsberg |
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No rest without love, No sleep without dreams of love - be mad or chill obsessed with angels or machines the final wish is love.
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Allen Ginsberg |
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A naked lunch is natural to us We eat reality sandwiches.
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Allen Ginsberg |
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This is the one and only firmament; therefore it is the absolute world. There is no other world. The circle is complete. I am living in Eternity.
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Allen Ginsberg |
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Who dreamt and made incarnate gaps in Time & Space through images juxtaposed, and trapped the archangel of the soul between 2 visual images and joined the elemental verbs and set the noun and dash of consciousness together jumping with sensation of Pater Omnipotens Aeterna Deus to recreate the syntax and measure of poor human prose and stand before you speechless and intelligent and shaking with shame
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writing
the-beats
howl
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Allen Ginsberg |
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What if someone gave a war and Nobody came?
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Allen Ginsberg |
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Who can live with this Consciousness and not wake frightened at sunrise?
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Allen Ginsberg |
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Holy the supernatural extra brilliant intelligent kindness of the soul!
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howl
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Allen Ginsberg |
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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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Allen Ginsberg |
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America I've given you all and now I'm nothing... I can't stand my own mind.
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Allen Ginsberg |
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I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator.
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Allen Ginsberg |
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The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction the weight, the weight we carry is love. Who can deny? In dreams it touches the body, in thought constructs a miracle, in imagination anguishes till born in human - looks out of the heart burning with purity - for the burden of life is love, but we carry the weight wearily, and so must rest in the arms of love at last, must rest in the arms of..
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Allen Ginsberg |
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No rest without love, no sleep without dreams of love- be mad or chill obsessed with angels or machines, the final wish is love -cannot be bitter, cannot deny, cannot withhold if denied: the weight is too heavy
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poem
love
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Allen Ginsberg |
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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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Allen Ginsberg |
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Unholy battered old thing you were, my sunflower O my soul, I loved you then!
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Allen Ginsberg |
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All these books are published in Heaven.
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Allen Ginsberg |
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Not even the human imagination satisfies the endless emptiness of the soul.
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Allen Ginsberg |
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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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religious
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Allen Ginsberg |
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You too must seek the sun...
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profound
life
truth
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Allen Ginsberg |
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The universe is mad, slightly mad.
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Allen Ginsberg |
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The whole blear world of smoke and twisted steel around my head in a railroad car, and my mind wandering past the rust into futurity: I saw the sun go down in a carnal and primeval world, leaving darkness to cover my railroad train
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Allen Ginsberg |
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Where are we going, Walt Whitman? The doors close in an hour. Which way does your beard point tonight? (I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd.) Will we walk all night through solitary streets? The trees add shade to shade, lights out in the houses, we'll both be lonely.
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Allen Ginsberg |
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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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Allen Ginsberg |
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He saw that I was shy, and at the time I was still scared of feeling with another person, so he put his arm around me and pulled me and put my head on his breast and gave me love actually.
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Allen Ginsberg |
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he threw up his hands and wrote the Universe dont exist and died to prove it
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Allen Ginsberg |
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We're not our skin of grime, we're not our dread bleak dusty imageless locomotive, we're all beautiful golden sunflowers inside, we're blessed by our own seed & hairy naked accomplishment-bodies growing into mad black formal sunflowers in the sunset, spied on by our eyes under the shadow of the mad locomotive riverbank sunset Frisco hilly tincan evening sitdown vision.
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Allen Ginsberg |
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I saw the best minds of my generation who threw their watches off the roof to cast their ballot for Eternity outside of Time, & alarm clocks fell on their heads every day for the next decade.
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