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> [Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the secret unconscious life. No one in America can know what will happen. No one is in real control.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allen-ginsberg/because-systems-of-mass-communication-can-communicate-only-officially/)

[Allen Ginsberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allen-ginsberg/)

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## More by Allen Ginsberg

> [“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving, hysterical, naked... who passed through universities with radiant cool eyes hallucinating Arkansas…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allen-ginsberg/i-saw-the-best-minds-of-my-generation-destroyed-by-madness-starving/)

[Allen Ginsberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allen-ginsberg/)

> [“I'm with you in Rockland in my dreams you walk dripping from a sea-journey on the highway across America in tears to the door…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allen-ginsberg/i-m-with-you-in-rockland-in-my-dreams-you-walk-dripping-from-a-sea/)

[Allen Ginsberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allen-ginsberg/)

> [“Slaves of Plastic! Leather-shoe chino-pants prisoners! Haircut junkies! Dacron-shiffers!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allen-ginsberg/slaves-of-plastic-leather-shoe-chino-pants-prisoners-haircut-junkies/)

[Allen Ginsberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allen-ginsberg/)

> [I was putting on a stiff upper lip and trying to fulfill the obligations I thought were demanded of me, taking over my father's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allen-ginsberg/i-was-putting-on-a-stiff-upper-lip-and-trying-to-fulfill-the/)

[Allen Ginsberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allen-ginsberg/)

> [“No more to say, and nothing to weep for”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allen-ginsberg/no-more-to-say-and-nothing-to-weep-for/)

[Allen Ginsberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allen-ginsberg/)

> [Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allen-ginsberg/poetry-is-not-an-expression-of-the-party-line-it-s-that-time-of-night/)

[Allen Ginsberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allen-ginsberg/)

> [“with my fucking suave manners and knowitall, eyes, and mind full of fantasy - the Me! that horror that keeps me conscious, in this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allen-ginsberg/with-my-fucking-suave-manners-and-knowitall-eyes-and-mind-full-of/)

[Allen Ginsberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allen-ginsberg/)

> [The apparition of an evil, sick unconscious wild city rose before me in visible semblance, and about the dead buildings in the barren air,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allen-ginsberg/the-apparition-of-an-evil-sick-unconscious-wild-city-rose-before-me/)

[Allen Ginsberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allen-ginsberg/)

> [America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allen-ginsberg/america-i-m-putting-my-queer-shoulder-to-the-wheel/)

[Allen Ginsberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allen-ginsberg/)

> [The desire to have power dissolves. The desire to dominate people for love dissolves. On the other hand, it's a relief to realize you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allen-ginsberg/the-desire-to-have-power-dissolves-the-desire-to-dominate-people-for/)

[Allen Ginsberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allen-ginsberg/)

> [“Poor dead flower? when did you forget you were a flower?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allen-ginsberg/poor-dead-flower-when-did-you-forget-you-were-a-flower/)

[Allen Ginsberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allen-ginsberg/)

> [“Central Intelligence cutting Meo opium fields! China Lobby copping poppies in Burma! How long this Addict government support our oil-burner matter-habit”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allen-ginsberg/central-intelligence-cutting-meo-opium-fields-china-lobby-copping/)

[Allen Ginsberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allen-ginsberg/)

> [“Forty feet long sixty feet high hotel Covered with old gray for buzzing flies Eye like mango flowing orange pus Ears Durga people vomiting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allen-ginsberg/forty-feet-long-sixty-feet-high-hotel-covered-with-old-gray-for/)

[Allen Ginsberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allen-ginsberg/)

> [“Hairy Mammal whaddya want”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allen-ginsberg/hairy-mammal-whaddya-want/)

[Allen Ginsberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allen-ginsberg/)

> [“Burroughs ... his very junkhood an accomplishment beyond a million dollars.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allen-ginsberg/burroughs-his-very-junkhood-an-accomplishment-beyond-a-million-dollars/)

[Allen Ginsberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allen-ginsberg/)

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