What is obscenity? And to whom? - Allen Ginsberg

I'm an old man now, and a lonesome man in Kansas / but not afraid / to speak my lonesomeness in a car, / because not only my lonesomeness / it's Ours, all over America, / O tender fellows — / & spoken lonesomeness is Prophecy / in the moon 100 years ago or in / the middle of Kansas now.

"Tell your secrets. [In reply to the question "How does one become a prophet?"]"

Love is only a recognition of our own guilt and imperfection, and a supplication for forgiveness to the perfect beloved. This is why we love those who are more beautiful than ourselves, why we fear them, and why we must be unhappy lovers.