"America, I've given you all and now I'm nothing."

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Allen Ginsberg

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“My indigestion issues got gigantic and constant. And then I started thinking, I'm getting skinny. I dropped about 20 pounds in the blink of an eye. And then when you see it in the mirror, when all of a sudden, you pull your eyes down and the bottom of your eyes go yellow and jaundice sets in - then you know something's wrong.”
“My grandmother did not come to see me till a month after my birth. I was born seven years after my only sister and my birth was a big disappointment for her. In it there is a message that I understand very well now about the discrimination against the girl child. My uncles and other relatives are against encouraging girls. My parents are more open. They back me all the way.”
“Personality is everything in art and poetry.”
“The white light of truth, in traversing the many sided transparent soul of the poet, is refracted into iris-hued poetry.”
“When people let youd own, God will pick you up.”
“If you are still alive when you read this, close your eyes. I am under their lids, growing black.”

Source : Bill Knott (1968). “The Naomi Poems, Book One: Corpse and Beans”
“If you have faith, you can do what others can't do, because you can see what others can't see.”
“if you do what you think is right for the benefit of everybody and everything and you make decisions, to go back and regret them afterwards - it's a futile experience and it's not worth thinking about. Because life just unfolds. Provided you do your best and you think you're on the right track, you can only be right or wrong. But to regret it - I don't think there are any huge errors or misdemeanors.”

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