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The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstacy is holy!
-Allen Ginsberg
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The Typewriter Is Holy The Poem Is

Allen Ginsberg
The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstacy is holy!
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I keep feeling that there isn't one poem being written by any one of us - or a book or anything like that. the whole life of us writers, the whole product i guess i mean, is the one long poem - a community effort if you will. it's all the same poem. it doesn't belong to any one writer - it's god's poem perhaps. or god's people's poem.
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