Allen Ginsberg — "Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!"
Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!
Get This Quote & Author's Image Illustrated On:
Click any product to generate a realistic preview. Up to 3 at a time.
* Initial load can take up to 90 seconds — revising the preview in another color is nearly instant.
Kitchen
Apparel
Other
More from Allen Ginsberg
"Actually one has to think of them, too. How can their problem be solved?—because they're hooked to the drugs, their whole existence depends on drugs. If the drug problem didn't exist, if the whole pro…"
"I have no idea what I'm doing, but I'm doing it with all my heart."
"I’m sick of being a tool of the ruling class."
"What it finally boils down to is that the fear is not about the drugs but about the police."
"Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening."
About Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)
American Beat poet whose Howl (1956) faced an obscenity trial and became a counterculture manifesto. Closely associated with Jack Kerouac (Beat novelist, On the Road) and William S. Burroughs (fellow Beat, Naked Lunch). For an intellectual contrast, see T.S. Eliot, high-modernist poet of The Waste Land — Ginsberg's open-line confessional Beat verse was a deliberate rejection of Eliot's allusive academic formalism — the two halves of mid-century American poetry.