I think that's thy poison of poetry and I think that's the poison of political activity. As soon as you've got an obligation, you're a prisoner of an obligation, you're no longer actually reacting openly to what you see in front of you as reality.
— Allen Ginsberg Modern

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1986

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Philosophical

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