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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.

Source: In Ginsberg: A Biography, ch. 17, 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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