❝the suicide of the artist enables him to transcend the particular of time and place. He passes beyond death. If he once existed, now he lives. He experiences a transmigration of spirit, that he spreads about wherever he passes. When he touches an object, it too dies, and becomes a living soul, a symbol.❞ -Allen Ginsberg, The Book of Martyrdom + Artifice ▲ 10 notes
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