# Quote — Allen Ginsberg, Howl

> 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.

- Author: [Allen Ginsberg](https://www.leafyquotes.com/allen-ginsberg.md)
- Book: [Howl](https://www.leafyquotes.com/allen-ginsberg/howl.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/allen-ginsberg/howl/who-poverty-and

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> I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,
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> dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix
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> angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night.

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> 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.

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

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