“My books piled up before me for my use waiting in space where I placed them, they haven't disappeared, time's left its remnants and qualities for me to use -- my words piled up, my texts, my manuscripts, my loves.”

— Allen Ginsberg, book Howl and Other Poems

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American poet 1926–1997

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