"we're all golden sunflowers inside."
"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."
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Source: Allen Ginsberg, Lewis Hyde (1984). “On the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg”, p.169, University of Michigan Press
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