“So therefore I dedicate myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being.”
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“I had a moment of clarity, saw the feeling in the heart of things, walked out to the garden crying.”
― Howl and Other Poems
― Howl and Other Poems
“I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim...”
― Desolation Angels
― Desolation Angels
“Follow your inner moonlight, don’t hide the madness.”
― Howl and Other Poems
― Howl and Other Poems
“I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber,poking among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys.
I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops?
What price bananas?
Are you my Angel?”
― Howl and Other Poems
I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops?
What price bananas?
Are you my Angel?”
― Howl and Other Poems
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