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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.
Approximate author period: c. 1961 AD · modern
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- Allen Ginsberg
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- Approximate author period: c. 1961 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Allen Ginsberg: life dates 1926 to 1997. Wikidata Q6711, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6711 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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