A Pondering Mind

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Saturday Evening Quote

Born: June 3, 1926 – Died: April 5, 1997



6 responses to “Saturday Evening Quote”

  1. His quote raises thought. I recall the time when people debated to exercise the mind, not to be right or wrong. . . just saying, Claudia

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    1. It seems like those days are long gone.

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  2. Thanks for posting this, Don! All day yesterday, my inner voice kept reminding me that 6/3 was a date I always celebrated, but I just couldn’t remember why.
    AG was the reason I got serious about poetry, back in my High School days. I actually got to meet him once, & have a newspaper front page photo of us standing together when he came to Hartford (CT) for a walking / reading tour back in ’78 (well after my ’69 graduation date).

    I’ve never tried to match his style, with the exception of this poem:
    https://eggsovertokyo.blogspot.com/2019/07/ginsbergs-omelet.html

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    1. That was nice for you to meet him, and I got to know one of Jack Kerouac’s cousins. That was more than twenty years ago.

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