"we're all golden sunflowers inside."
"Unholy battered old thing you were, my sunflower O my soul, I loved you then!"
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Source: Allen Ginsberg, Lewis Hyde (1984). “On the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg”, p.395, University of Michigan Press
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