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"For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming."
"I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican."
"Each drop that fell, had a story to tell.each smile that curved, said a million words.(Poem: Our Existence, Book: Ginger and Honey)"
"Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance."
"Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry."
"We traveled long and forgot why poetry was invented."
Explore more quotes by Allen Ginsberg
"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."
"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 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."
"Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church."
"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."
"I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator."
"My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed."
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