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You see those guys wearing baggy pants, descendants of the parachute pants, wearing an odd, weird Frankenstein haircut. It all comes out of Peter Lorre.

~Allen Ginsberg

Topics: Baggy Descendants Frankenstein Guys Haircut Odd Out Pants Parachute Peter See Those Wearing Weird You

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I would say that Times Square was the central hangout for Burroughs, Kerouac, and myself from about 1945 to 1948.

~Allen Ginsberg

Topics: About Central Myself Say Square Times Times Square Would

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America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.

~Allen Ginsberg

Topics: America Putting Queer Shoulder Wheel

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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.

~Allen Ginsberg

Topics: Bed Does Expression Line Lying Making Night Party Poet Poetry Private Public Really Think Thinking Time World You

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My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.

~Allen Ginsberg

Topics: Among Bed Best Brought Certain Experience Genius Kind My Own Out Own Students

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

~Allen Ginsberg

Topics: Bow Creator Gifted He Me People Poetry Presence Say See Seen Want

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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.

~Allen Ginsberg

Topics: Alive Cling Decent Fact Fully Got Normal Person Possible Which

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America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?

~Allen Ginsberg

Topics: America Holy How Mood Silly Write Your I Write

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America, I've given you all and now I'm nothing.

~Allen Ginsberg

Topics: America Given Nothing Now You

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

~Allen Ginsberg

Topics: Catholic Catholic Church Church Kitsch Moral Private Reference Supreme Ultimately Warhol

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: June 3rd, 1926

Died: April 5th, 1997

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