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"America, I've given you all and now I'm nothing."
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"What can you do to ensure that your voice value translates into impression value?"

"Art is a distinct form of human communication. Art interprets experience, sensation, and feelings. An artistic work translates our mental images and allows other people to understand what we feel; art conveys our happiness, sadness, hopes, doubts, anxieties, fears, desires, and ineffable longings."

"Heaven resonates when one sings wholeheartedly."

"You won't write, won't ya??I just focus on the negative!"

"There are things known-things experienced, felt, and understood-that words hold no power to convey. Attempting to do so only dilutes their substance and does them injustice."

"Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent."

"Use language what you will, you can never say anything but what you are."

"Snooty knew measly talked muchly."

"If you want people to dance to your tune, sing beautiful songs."

"Find a voice in a whisper."
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"The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction."

"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."

"I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator."

"I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking through an empty skull... I wasn't thinking my own thoughts or saying my own thoughts."

"The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive."

"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."

"Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church."
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