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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, that very area of personal self-recognition,(detailed individual is universal remember) which formal conventions, internalized, keep us from discovering in ourselves and others
— Allen Ginsberg
Tags: poetry

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Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.
— Allen Ginsberg
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I have been wrathful all my life, angry against my father and all others. My wrath must end. All my images now are of heaven.
— Allen Ginsberg
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I would say that Times Square was the central hangout for Burroughs, Kerouac, and myself from about 1945 to 1948.
— Allen Ginsberg
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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.
— Allen Ginsberg
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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.
— Allen Ginsberg
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