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is the most important thing. And the quality of affection - with your friends, your lovers, your family. But particularly for your own generation.

Affection is the most important thing. And the quality of affection - with your friends, your lovers, your family. But particularly for your own generation.

is not wrong in wanting more and more of the world, but the mistake we make is that we accumulate more and more dead matter, machinery, possessions and rugs and fact information at the expense of what really counts as more: feeling, good feeling, sex feeling, tenderness feeling, mutual feeling. You own twice as much rug if you're twice as aware of the rug.

Every American wants MORE & MORE of the world and why not, you only live once. But the mistake made in America is persons accumulate more & more dead matter, machinery, possessions & rugs & fact information at the expense of what really counts as more: feeling, good feeling, sex feeling, tenderness feeling, mutual feeling. You own twice as much rug if you're twice as aware of the rug.

is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

is a better form of possession. You own twice as much rug if you're twice as aware of the rug.

is snowing in your nose and catching a cold in your brain.

When it snows in your nose, you catch cold in your brain.

Our heads are round so thought can change direction

has a newness that has in it the echoes of J. S. Bach.

From it's inception Beat poetry was hailed as "something NEW" and "like all good spontaneous jazz, newness is acceptable and expected - by hip people who listen." But the newness of jazz has in it the echoes of J. S. Bach.

is a useful catalyst for specific optical and aural aesthetic perceptions.

Marijuana is a useful catalyst for specific optical and aural aesthetic perceptions. I apprehended the structure of certain pieces of jazz and classical music in a new manner under the influence of marijuana, and these apprehensions have remained valid in years of normal consciousness.

is dominance. Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.

Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.

is the wonderful opportunity to take rest, to forgive, to smile, to get ready for all the battles that you have to fight tomorrow.

Night is the wonderful opportunity to take rest, to forgive, to smile, to get ready for all the battles that you have to fight tomorrow.

is important --- Our heads are round so thought can change direction

's poignancy comes from looking back to a fleeting moment in a floating world. Its transitoriness is what creates the sense of the sacred.

The poignancy of a photograph comes from looking back to a fleeting moment in a floating world. The transitoriness is what creates the sense of the sacred

is like a radio that can broadcast continuously for thousands of years.

A poem is like a radio that can broadcast continuously for thousands of years.

is damned, but sees with the eyes of the angel.

Poets are Damned... but See with the Eyes of Angels.

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.

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.

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.

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.

is tasked to provide spontaneous individual candor as distinct from manipulation and brainwash.

Poetry's role is to provide spontaneous individual candor as distinct from manipulation and brainwash.

is what occurs when you notice something clearly and see it vividly.

When you notice something clearly and see it vividly, it then becomes sacred.

is the result of noticing something clearly and seeing it vividly.

An unnoticed corner of the world suddenly becomes noticed, and when you notice something clearly and see it vividly, it becomes sacred. (On Robert Frank's photography)

is a city of temporaries, a city of just-arrived and one-visitings, built on the shifting sands of politics, filled with people passing through.

Like a city in dreams, the great white Georgetown on the west to Anacostia on the east. It is a city of temporaries, a city of just-arriveds and one-visitings, built on the shifting sands of politics, filled with people passing through, [of Washington] Advise and Consent and Consent DRURY, Allen (1918 )

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