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Howl QUOTES

Howl QUOTES

1 " The madman bum and angel beat in time with the absolute heart of the poem butchered out of their own bodies good to eat a thousand years "

― Allen Ginsberg , Howl

2 " who cut their wrists three times successively unsuccessfully, gave up and were forced to open antique stores where they thought they were growing old and cried. "

― Allen Ginsberg , Howl

3 " who jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge this actually happened and walked away unknown and forgotten into the ghostly daze of Chinatown soup alleyways & firetrucks, not even one free beer "

― Allen Ginsberg , Howl

4 " Balanceándose y rodando en la banca de la
soledad de medianoche reinos dolmen del amor,
sueño de la vida de una pesadilla, cuerpos
convertidos en piedra tan pesada como la
luna "

― Allen Ginsberg , Howl

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

― Allen Ginsberg , Howl

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

― Allen Ginsberg , Howl

7 " ...who plunged themselves under meat trucks looking for an egg,
who threw their watches off the roof to cast their ballot for Eternity outside of Time, & alarm clocks fell on their heads every day for the next decade,
who cut their wrists three times successively unsuccessfully, gave up and were forced to open antique stores where they thought they were growing old and cried... "

― Allen Ginsberg , Howl

8 " I smoke marijuana every chance I get. "

― Allen Ginsberg , Howl

9 " who drove crosscountry seventytwo hours to find out if I had a vision or you had a vision or he had a vision to find out Eternity,

who journeyed to Denver, who died in Denver, who came back to Denver & waited in vain, who watched over Denver & brooded & loned in Denver and finally went away to find out the Time, & now Denver is lonesome for her heroes, "

― Allen Ginsberg , Howl