With help from the American Civil Liberties Union, they were acquitted after a highly publicized trial, and the judge's ruling established a legal standard for publishing controversial books of redeeming social importance. ... presents a picture of a nightmare world.
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Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.Allen Ginsberg
No monster vibration, no snake universe hallucinations. Many tiny jeweled violet flowers along the path of a living brook that looked like Blake's illustration for a canal in grassy Eden huge Pacific watery shore, Orlovsky dancing naked like Shiva long-haired before giant green waves, titanic cliffs that Wordsworth mentioned in his own Sublime, great yellow sun veiled with mist hanging over the planet's oceanic horizon. No harm.
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America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?
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Now mind is clear
as a cloudless sky.
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My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.
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It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.
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