One Van Gogh painting that especially influenced him was "The Starry Night", painted in eighteen eighty-nine.

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Mr. GINSBERG: Angel-headed hipsters, burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night, who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities contemplating jazz.

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