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"A poet often lives in an enchanted land where he sees things not with his eyes but with his feelings."

"Sometimes poets expect me to think far deeper than I'm willing to dig."

"He cleared his throat and held up one hand dramatically."Green grass breaks through snow. Artemis pleads for my help. He grinned at us, waiting for applause. "That last line was four syllables. Artemis said. Apollo frowned. "Was it? "No, no, that's six syllable, hhhm. He started muttering to himself. That's five syllables! He bowed, looking very pleased with himself."

"Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own."

"Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?"

"It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them."

"Only a seer or a lover would know that I'm making a jewelry of words for you -drawn from your essence -to flash and burn with your fire -so you can bedazzle with your own light ..."
Explore more quotes by Allen Ginsberg

"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked."

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

"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."
Fact,

"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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