Allen Ginsberg:

The most important thing about dreams is the existence in them of magical emotions, to which waking consciousness is not ordinarily sentient. Awe of vast constructions; familiar eternal halls of buildings; sexual intensity in rapport; deathly music; grief awakenings, perfected lodgings.

— Allen Ginsberg Modern

Howl, Beat poet

Context

Journals: Early Fifties, Early Sixties

Date / Period

1950s-1960s (published later)

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