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“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. ”
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“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”
― Paper Towns
― Paper Towns
“When she was fifteen if you'd told her
that when she was twenty she'd be going
to bed with bald-headed men and liking it,
she would have thought you very abstract.”
― The Time Machine
that when she was twenty she'd be going
to bed with bald-headed men and liking it,
she would have thought you very abstract.”
― The Time Machine
“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
“Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us.
These, our bodies, possessed by light.
Tell me we'll never get used to it.”
― Crush
These, our bodies, possessed by light.
Tell me we'll never get used to it.”
― Crush
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