"we're all golden sunflowers inside."
"The parts that embarrass you the most are usually the most interesting poetically, are usually the most naked of all, the rawest, the goofiest, the strangest and most eccentric and at the same time, most representative, most universal... That was something I earned from Kerouac, which was that spontaneous writing could be embarrassing... The cure for that is to write the thing down which you will not publish and which you won't show people. To write secretly... so you can actually be free to say anything you want."
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Source: Allen Ginsberg (2001). “Howl and Other Poems: Pocket Poets Number 4”, p.28, City Lights Publishers
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