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I have a new method of poetry. All you got to do is look over your notebooks. . . and think of anything that comes into your head, especially the miseries. . . . Then arrange in lines of two, three or four words each, don't bother about sentences . . .

Source: Letter, 1952; published in Ginsberg: A Biography, ch. 5, by Barry Miles, 1989.
-- Allen Ginsberg, (Jun 3 1926-1997), US poet; His epic poem Howl, 1956 is considered to be one of the most significant products of the Beat movement.

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