“Many seek and never see,
anyone can tell them why.
O they weep and O they cry
and never take until they try
unless they try it in their sleep
and never some until they die.
I ask many, they ask me.
This is a great mystery.”

— Allen Ginsberg

Source: Collected Poems 1947-1997

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American poet 1926–1997

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