An-open-window-on-chicago Quote by Allen Ginsberg Download Open image ““enraptured in hypnotic war”” — Allen Ginsberg ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare An-open-window-on-chicago War
“…the neurotic torture of being seductive regularly—by the night: the more that perchance the struggle always is unconscious.” — Mary MacLane Copy Share Image
“Even as it clouds our corporeal vision, intoxication clarifies our spiritual vision. The mind, set free from the heavy bondage of the body, flees… — Gérard de Nerval Copy Share Image
“The magic of the revolution had joined with people's fear of death, their horror of torture, their anguish when the first breath of the… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
...the temptation, which consisted of a single word written on the cemetary of the defeated: Sleep. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“Condemned to exhaust the beauty of its captivity, it slithers away in opposite directions at once as if to escape its venomous memories.” — Ricardo M. de Ungria Copy Share Image
“The suspense: the fearful, acute suspense: of standing idly by while the life of one we dearly love, is trembling in the balance; the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you have read… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“The tongueless torturer and the flower of chivalry. An unlikely alliance.” — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“What a weary way since that first disaster, what nerves torn from the heart of insentience, with the appertaining terror and the cerebellum on… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“drugged to sleep by repetition of the diurnal round, the monotonous sorrow of the finite, within I am awake repairing in… — Frank Bidart Copy Share Image
“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving, hysterical, naked... who passed through universities with radiant cool eyes hallucinating Arkansas… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“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… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“Slaves of Plastic! Leather-shoe chino-pants prisoners! Haircut junkies! Dacron-shiffers!” — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
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… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
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… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“with my fucking suave manners and knowitall, eyes, and mind full of fantasy - the Me! that horror that keeps me conscious, in this… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
The apparition of an evil, sick unconscious wild city rose before me in visible semblance, and about the dead buildings in the barren air,… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
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… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“Central Intelligence cutting Meo opium fields! China Lobby copping poppies in Burma! How long this Addict government support our oil-burner matter-habit” — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
