The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.
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Black musicians were imitating speech cadences, and Kerouac was imitating the black musicians' breath cadences on their horns and brought it back to speech. It always was speech rhythms or cadences as far as the ear that Kerouac was developing. All passed through black music.
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The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.
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I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator.
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America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.
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Amerika aku meletakkan bahu anehku ke kemudi.
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I am 23, the year of the iron birthday, the gate of darkness. I am ill.
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Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.
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Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.