The Rolling Stones were an inkling towards an appreciation of the unity of music, dance and words. Any of the black R&B people who had a stage show that involved dancing, music and words did the same thing, except that I thought Jagger's words were good, his music was good and his dancing was good. I spoke to him about Blake and tried to get him to sing [William] Blake's The Grey Monk, to use his words as lyrics. He didn't do it. In the end, I did it myself.
Allen GinsbergI saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.
Allen GinsbergI really would like to stop working foreverโnever work again, never do anything like the kind of work Iโm doing nowโand do nothing but write poetry and have leisure to spend the day outdoors and go to museums and see friends. And Iโd like to keep living with someone โ maybe even a man โ and explore relationships that way. And cultivate my perceptions, cultivate the visionary thing in me. Just a literary and quiet city-hermit existence.
Allen Ginsberg