I'm so tired of acting tough, and I'm gonna do as I please

"Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express." 

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"I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic."

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"Too heavy for this lightness lifts the brain into blue sky at May dawn when birds start singing on East 12th Street--where does it come from? Where does it go forever?"

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"A phrase began to beat in my ears with a sort of heady excitement: 'There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired.'"




Quote 1- T.S. Eliot, 2- "A Streetcar Named Desire," 3- Ginsberg, 4- Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby"