Quote by Allen Ginsberg
Poetry is not an expression of the party line. Its that time of ni

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. Its that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, thats what the poet does. – Allen Ginsberg

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Nobody saves America by sniffing cocaine,
jiggling your knees blankly in the rain.
When it snows in your nose
you catch cold in your brain. – Allen Ginsberg

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Drugs
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So I had a choice between going to a jail or going to a bughouse like a nice young middle-class student. So I chose to go to a very polite mental hospital. When I left eight months later, they said, You were never psychotic. You were just an average neurotic. – Allen Ginsberg

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It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither. – Gerard Manley Hopkins

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Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture. – Juan Ramon Jimenez

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Ive written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck. – J. Michael Straczynski

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If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect. – John Barton

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Music, art, theater. Im just a big fan of beauty. – Jerry Hall

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When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon. – Thomas Paine

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