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Kaddish and Other Poems

Allen Ginsberg

Top 10 Best Quotes

“What came is gone forever every time”

“No more to say, and nothing to weep for”

“Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets & eyes, while I walk on the sunny pavement of Greenwich Village. downtown Manhattan, clear winter noon, and I've been up all night, talking, talking, reading the Kaddish aloud, listening to Ray Charles blues shout blind on the phonograph”

“Thank God I am not God! Thank God I am not God!”

“Burroughs a purest ignu his haircut is a cream his left finger pinkey chopped off for early ignu reasons metaphysical spells love spells with psychoanalysts his very junkhood an accomplishment beyond a million dollars”

“the day of the publication of the true literature of the American body will be day of Revolution the revolution of the sexy lamb”

“No more to say, and nothing to weep for but the Beings in the Dream, trapped in its disappearance,”

“Burroughs ... his very junkhood an accomplishment beyond a million dollars.”

“- an ant's dream's funnier than ours - he has more of them faster and seems to give less of a shit -”

“Now is the time of prophecy without death as a consequence the universe will ultimately disappear Hollywood will rot on the windmills of Eternity Hollywood whose movies stick in the throat of God Yes Hollywood will get what it deserves Time Seepage of nerve-gas over the radio History will make this poem prophetic and its awful silliness a hideous spiritual music I have the moan of doves and the feather of ecstasy Man cannot long endure the hunger of the cannibal abstract”

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