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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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Marijuana is a useful catalyst for specific optical and aural aesthetic perceptions. I apprehended the structure of certain pieces of jazz and classical music in a new manner under the influence of marijuana, and these apprehensions have remained valid in years of normal consciousness. – 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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I really would like to stop working forever—never work again, never do anything like the kind of work I’m doing now—and do nothing but write poetry and have leisure to spend the day outdoors and go to museums and see friends…. Just a literary and quiet city-hermit existence. – Allen Ginsberg

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Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry. – Julie Taymor

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My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images. – James Broughton

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The poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more? – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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I love painting and music, of course. I dont know nearly as much about them as I know about poetry. Ive certainly been influenced by fiction. I was overwhelmed by War and Peace when I read it, and I didnt read it until I was in my late 20s. – Kenneth Koch

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