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Some general anti-government, anti-authority. Part III of Howl is largely about the psychiatric confinement of Carl Solomon in mental institutions, but the same theme pops up in Part II. Mentioned in On the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg by Lewis Hyde (p405) In Allen Ginsberg´s poem 'Howl', what did 'Moloch' represent What sphinx of cement and aluminum bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and. He also remembers the therapists’ response: “Well, why don’t you?”

Just a literary and quiet city-hermit existence.”Īround 1953 Ginsberg began seeing a therapist at Langley Porter Institute, San Francisco, and recalls saying the above to him. And cultivate my perceptions, cultivate the visionary thing in me. And I’d like to keep living with someone - maybe even a man - and explore relationships that way. “I really would like to stop working forever–never work again, never do anything like the kind of work I’m doing now–and do nothing but write poetry and have leisure to spend the day outdoors and go to museums and see friends. It reminds me somewhat of this Nicholas Carr quote: “there needs to be time for efficient data collection and time for inefficient contemplation, time to operate the machine and time to sit idly in the garden”. Yes, motivating ourselves is important, but so is simplifying life and enjoying the little moments. I think that often we find ourselves reading books, articles and websites that push us to do more, see more, and be more, and I love that this conveys the opposite. I recently came across a wonderful quote from Allen Ginsberg, the Beat Generation poet best known for his incredible epic poem “Howl” (“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness…”) and wanted to share it with you.

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