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Journals: Early Fifties, Early Sixties QUOTES

Journals: Early Fifties, Early Sixties QUOTES

1 " The Wisdom of Solomon (Carl)

They censor words not the things they denote:
It would create less of a stir to drop a piece of shit on Grant's tomb
than to write it out in white paint.
Because people recognize that's what memorials are for–old bums & dogs to shit on. "

― Allen Ginsberg , Journals: Early Fifties, Early Sixties

2 " The most important thing about dreams is the existence in them of magical emotions, to which waking consciousness is not ordinarily sentient. Awe of vast constructions; familiar eternal halls of buildings; sexual intensity in rapport; deathly music; grief awakenings, perfected lodgings. "

― Allen Ginsberg , Journals: Early Fifties, Early Sixties