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.

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Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.

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Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

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America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?

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I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking through an empty skull... I wasn't thinking my own thoughts or saying my own thoughts.

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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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Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!

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The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.

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America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.

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My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.

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