Civilization Quote 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…

— 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…

— Allen Ginsberg

“Slaves of Plastic! Leather-shoe chino-pants prisoners! Haircut junkies! Dacron-shiffers!”

— 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…

— Allen Ginsberg

“No more to say, and nothing to weep for”

— 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…

— 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…

— 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,…

— Allen Ginsberg

America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.

— 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…

— Allen Ginsberg

“Poor dead flower? when did you forget you were a flower?”

— 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”

— Allen Ginsberg