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"Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies."
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"Poetry is an art that uses words to paint vivid pictures of perceptions and emotions."

"When I was an art student in the early 60's before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist."

"I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality."

"Do you suffer when you write? I don't at all. Suffer like a bastard when don't write, or just before, and feel empty and fucked out afterwards. But never feel as good as while writing."
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"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them."

"I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea."

"New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize that New York is the world's greatest lie. New York is Senegal with machines."

"The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails. That is all. And in Cuba, in our America, they make much better cocktails."

"The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish."
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