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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.

~Allen Ginsberg

Topics: Art Community Effort Flesh Fortunately Interpret Living Select Small Wars World

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I was putting on a stiff upper lip and trying to fulfill the obligations I thought were demanded of me, taking over my father's role of taking care of my mother... and having to be the recipient of her confessions and emotions but of a delusional nature.

~Allen Ginsberg

Topics: Care Confessions Delusional Demanded Emotions Father Fulfill Having Her Lip Me Mother Nature Obligations Over Putting Recipient Role Stiff Taking Thought Trying Upper Were

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I am 23, the year of the iron birthday, the gate of darkness. I am ill.

~Allen Ginsberg

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Black musicians were imitating speech cadences, and Kerouac was imitating the black musicians' breath cadences on their horns and brought it back to speech. It always was speech rhythms or cadences as far as the ear that Kerouac was developing. All passed through black music.

~Allen Ginsberg

Topics: Always As Far As Back Black Black Music Breath Brought Developing Ear Far Horns Imitating Music Musicians Passed Rhythms Speech Through Were

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I recommend for any basic course on the Beat Generation to familiarize yourself with 'The Idiot,' Prince Myshkin. He was Dostoyevsky's idea of the most beautiful human being he could imagine, the creation of a saint in literature.

~Allen Ginsberg

Topics: Any Basic Beat Beautiful Being Could Course Creation Generation He Human Human Being Idea Idiot Imagine Literature Most Most Beautiful Prince Recommend Saint Yourself

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The motif of Beat Generation is basically misunderstood, a misinterpreted area. There's this superimposition of the idea of a social rebellion, which was the communist interpretation through Lawrence Lipton.

~Allen Ginsberg

Topics: Area Basically Beat Communist Generation Idea Interpretation Lawrence Misinterpreted Misunderstood Rebellion Social Through Which

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: June 3rd, 1926

Died: April 5th, 1997

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