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> [What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families shopping at night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!--and you, Garcia Lorca, what were you doing down by the watermelons?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allen-ginsberg/what-peaches-and-what-penumbras-whole-families-shopping-at-night/)

[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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