I keep this by my bedside.
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18. A quote you live by.
When i was younger, I used to have a whole website of quotes. Now, I quote lyrics and poetry. I think one piece of poetry that i keep in mind is Sunflower Sutra by Allen Ginsberg. It makes me remember that even when i feel rundown and like my life is mundane, that I am special and have so much to offer to this world. I forget that I’m a sunflower, instead of a dusty old locomotive, driven by the government and society, and rundown by daily use. Below is a excerpt from Sunflower Sutra.
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“…A perfect beauty of a sunflower! a perfect excellentlovely sunflower existence! a sweet natural eyeto the new hip moon, woke up alive and excitedgrasping in the sunset shadow sunrise goldenmonthly breeze!How many flies buzzed round you innocent of yourgrime, while you cursed the heavens of therailroad and your flower soul?Poor dead flower? when did you forget you were aflower? when did you look at your skin anddecide you were an impotent dirty old locomotive?the ghost of a locomotive? the specter andshade of a once powerful mad American locomotive?You were never no locomotive, Sunflower, you were asunflower! …”
“…We’re not our skin of grime, we’re not our dreadbleak dusty imageless locomotive, we’re allbeautiful golden sunflowers inside, we’re blessedby our own seed…”
