Unholy battered old thing you were, my sunflower O my soul, I loved you then!
("Howl and Other Poems")
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I have a new method of poetry. All you got to do is look over your notebooks. . . and think of anything that comes into your head, especially the miseries. . . . Then arrange in lines of two, three or four words each, don't bother about sentences . . .Allen Ginsberg
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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Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.
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Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.
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Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.
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The world knows the love that's in its breast as
in the flower, the suffering lonely world.
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