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

Nobody saves America by sniffing cocaine,
jiggling your knees blankly in the rain.
When it snows in your nose
you catch cold in your brain. – Allen Ginsberg

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Drugs
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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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Drugs
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The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. Thats what poetry does. – Allen Ginsberg

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Madness
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Much Madness is divinest Sense — to a discerning Eye — much Sense — the starkest Madness — – Emily Dickinson

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

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The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason. – Hermann Broch

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Madness

The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate societys logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap. – Cynthia Ozick

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If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change whats crushing you. – Jeanette Winterson

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Religion leaves no room for human complexity. – Daniel Radcliffe

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A man should go on living — if only to satisfy his curiosity. – Yiddish Proverb

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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. – Margaret Meade

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