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Howl
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Allen Ginsberg
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Howl Quotes
Find quotes from this poem, with commentary from Shmoop. Pick a theme below to begin.
Madness Quotes
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked (line 1)
Rules and Order Quotes
who passed through universities with radiant cool eyes hallucinating Arkansas and Blake-light tragedy among the scholars of war, who were expelled from the academies for crazy & publishing obscene...
Freedom and Confinement Quotes
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...
Religion Quotes
who bared their brains to Heaven under the El and saw Mohammedan angels staggering on tenement roofs illuminated (line 5)
Visions of America Quotes
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked (line 1)
