You can't escape the past in Paris, and yet what's so wonderful about it is that the past and present intermingle so intangibly that it doesn't seem to burden.
Interpretation
The quote expresses how the past is deeply intertwined with the present in Paris, creating a unique atmosphere that feels both nostalgic and liberating.
Allen Ginsberg reflects on the city of Paris, highlighting the inescapable nature of its historical significance. He suggests that the way the past and present coexist in Paris is not burdensome but rather enriching, allowing one to appreciate history while living in the moment.
In practice
This quote could be used in a travel blog about the timelessness of Paris.
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of the night.
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What if someone gave a war and Nobody came?
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Sometime Iβll lay down my wrath, As I lay my body down Between the ache of breath and breath, Golden slumber in the bone.
I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.
Most world religions denounced war as a barbaric waste of human life. We treasured the teachings of these religions so dearly that we frequently had to wage war in order to impose them on other people.
I must secure more time for private devotions. I have been living far too public for me. The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint. I have been keeping too late hours.
Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
A man is called a good fellow for doing things which, if done by a woman, would land her in a lunatic asylum.
The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe
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