| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 24988 |
| QUOTATION: | What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman, for I walked down the sidestreets under the trees with a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon. In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images, I went into the neon fruit supermarket, dreaming of your enumerations! |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926), U.S. poet. “A Supermarket in California,” Howl and Other Poems (1956).
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| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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