Allen Ginsberg

Quotes

1. I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,

   dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix

   angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night.

2. 

   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.

3. 

   who let themselves be fucked in the ass by saintly motorcyclists, and screamed with joy, who blew and were blown by those human seraphim, the sailors, caresses of Atlantic and Caribbean love, who balled in the morning in the evenings in rosegardens and the grass of public parks and cemeteries scattering their semen freely to whomever come who may.

4. 

   who lit cigarettes in boxcars boxcars boxcars racketing through snow toward lonesome farms in grandfather night.

5. 

   Carl Solomon! I’m with you in Rockland

   where you’re madder than I am

   I’m with you in Rockland

   where you must feel very strange

   I’m with you in Rockland

   where you imitate the shade of my mother

   I’m with you in Rockland

   where you’ve murdered your twelve secretaries

   I’m with you in Rockland

6. 

   who copulated ecstatic and insatiate with a bottle of beer a sweetheart a package of cigarettes a candle and fell off the bed, and continued along the floor and down the hall and ended fainting on the wall with a vision of ultimate cunt and come eluding the last gyzym of consciousness.

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