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Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

Allen Ginsberg
Time, Lying, Party
Quoted in Barry Miles Ginsberg (1989), ch.5.

Truth is dissent, where all power resides in the Big Lie.

Allen Ginsberg
Lying, Truth Is, Bigs

Who’ll come lie down in the dark with me Belly to belly and knee to knee Who’ll look into my hooded eye Who’ll lie down under my darkened thigh?

Allen Ginsberg
Lying, Eye, Dark
Allen Ginsberg (2015). “The Essential Ginsberg”, p.11, HarperCollins

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