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.
From Allen Ginsberg
Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.
Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!
I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking through an empty skull... I wasn't thinking my own thoughts or saying my own thoughts.
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.
The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.
Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.
America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.
Poets are Damned... but See with the Eyes of Angels.
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