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“The weight of the world is love.
Under the burden of solitude,
under the burden of dissatisfaction
the weight,the weight we carry is love. ”
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Under the burden of solitude,
under the burden of dissatisfaction
the weight,the weight we carry is love. ”
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“What sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination?
- Howl”
― Howl and Other Poems
- Howl”
― Howl and Other Poems
“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of the night.”
― Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems
― Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems
“Everybody's serious but me.”
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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.”
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Dik’s 2025 Year in Books
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