From it's inception Beat ...

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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 Allen Ginsberg

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Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the secret unconscious life. No one in America can know what will happen. No one is in real control.
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 Allen Ginsberg
Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.
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 Allen Ginsberg
This is the one and only firmament; therefore it is the absolute world. There is no other world. The circle is complete. I am living in Eternity. The ways of this world are the ways of Heaven.
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 Allen Ginsberg
I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd.
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 Allen Ginsberg
Man’s usurpation over nature is an egotism that will destroy human as well as whale kingdoms. … Academies should return to wisdom study in tree groves rather than robot study in plastic cells
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 Allen Ginsberg