Quote by Allen Ginsberg
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness. - Alle

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness. – Allen Ginsberg

Other quotes by Allen Ginsberg

So I had a choice between going to a jail or going to a bughouse like a nice young middle-class student. So I chose to go to a very polite mental hospital. When I left eight months later, they said, You were never psychotic. You were just an average neurotic. – Allen Ginsberg

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I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator. – Allen Ginsberg

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Marijuana is a useful catalyst for specific optical and aural aesthetic perceptions. I apprehended the structure of certain pieces of jazz and classical music in a new manner under the influence of marijuana, and these apprehensions have remained valid in years of normal consciousness. – Allen Ginsberg

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No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness. – Aristotle

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Its a question to ask ourselves if were not mad. But who are the madmen, in Gods name? Those who wonder about it, or the others? If we ever began to speak out loud, what would they do with us, tell me? – Victor Serge

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Madness

I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I have received a singular warning, I have felt the wind of the wing of madness pass over me. – Charles Baudelaire

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Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, ages it is the rule. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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