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Allen Ginsberg

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our means in America to control the money munching war machine, bright lit industry


— Allen Ginsberg


#money

Absolutes are Coercion. Change is absolute.


— Allen Ginsberg


#change #coercion #change

Mothers weep and Sons be dumb your brothers and children murder the beautiful yellow bodies of Indochina in dreams invented for your eyes by TV


— Allen Ginsberg


#beauty

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


#intelligence

Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.


— Allen Ginsberg


#catholic church #church #kitsch #moral #private

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 private world public, that's what the poet does.


— Allen Ginsberg


#does #expression #line #lying #making

I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking through an empty skull... I wasn't thinking my own thoughts or saying my own thoughts.


— Allen Ginsberg


#empty #i #i think #into #my own

America, I've given you all and now I'm nothing.


— Allen Ginsberg


#given #i #nothing #now #you

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.


— Allen Ginsberg


#destroyed #generation #hysterical #i #madness

Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.


— Allen Ginsberg


#culture #images #media #whoever






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According to fellow poet Michael McClure it was clear "that a barrier had been broken that a human voice and body had been hurled against the harsh wall of America and its supporting armies and navies and academies and institutions and ownership systems and power support bases. She also tried to kill herself by slitting her wrists and was soon taken to Greystone a mental hospital; Allen Ginsberg would spend much of Ginsberg's youth in mental hospitals. The yellow of the sunshine also showed the key on the side of the window.

His moving and angry poem September on Jessore Road calling attention to the plight of Bangladeshi refugees exemplifies what the literary critic Helen Vendler described as Ginsberg's tireless persistence in protesting against "imperial politics and persecution of the powerless. D. " Ginsberg's political activism was consistent with his religious beliefs.

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