"we're all golden sunflowers inside."
"So the problem for the poetic artist or the photographer is the common problem of continuous attentiveness, continuous attempts to notice what he is noticing, continuous alertness to catch himself thinking or seeing, devotional attentiveness to the world he's moving through."
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Source: Allen Ginsberg (2013). “Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems”, p.57, Penguin UK
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