Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.

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My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.

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The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.

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I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator.

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The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.

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The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive.

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Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.

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Kissass

Kissass is the Part of Peace
America will have to Kissass Mother Earth
Whites have to Kissass blacks, for Peace & Pleasure,
Only Pathway to Peace, Kissass.

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Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

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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.

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