"we're all golden sunflowers inside."
"It means abandoning being a poet, abandoning your careerism, abandoning even the idea of writing any poetry, really abandoning, giving up as hopeless - abandoning the possibility of really expressing yourself to the nations of the world. Abandoning the idea of being a prophet with honor and dignity, and abandoning the glory of poetry and just settling down in the muck of your own mindYou really have to make a resolution to write for yourself, in the sense of not writing to impress yourself, but just writing what your self is saying."
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Source: Gary Snyder, Allen Ginsberg (2009). “The Selected Letters of Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder, 1956-1991”, p.254, Counterpoint Press
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