• 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
  American poet 1926-1997
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. expression
2. thinking
3. private
4. making
5. public
6. world

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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. by : Allen Ginsberg

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