The Fall of America Quotes

“What if someone gave a war and Nobody came?”
― Allen Ginsberg, The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971

“Who can live with this Consciousness and not wake frightened at sunrise?”
― Allen Ginsberg, The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971

“The hero surviving his own murder, his own suicide, his own addiction, surviving his own disappearance from the scene”
― Allen Ginsberg, The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971

“he threw up his hands
and wrote the Universe dont exist
and died to prove it”
― Allen Ginsberg, The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971

“War is good business Invest your son”
― Allen Ginsberg, The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971

“YOUR NAME IS WRITTEN IN HEAVEN”
― Allen Ginsberg, The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971

“senseless, senseless coughs of emotion”
― Allen Ginsberg, The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971

“Earth pollution identical with Mind pollution, consciousness Pollution identical with filthy sky”
― Allen Ginsberg, The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971

“Shit, Violence, bullets in the brain Unavailing.
We're in too deep to pull out.
Waiting for an orgasm, Mr. Baldwin?
Yes, waiting for an orgasm that's all.”
― Allen Ginsberg, The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971

“Trees scream and drop bright leaves”
― Allen Ginsberg, The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971

“The electric network selling itself: "The medium is the message”
― Allen Ginsberg, The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971

“Anger falling asleep at the heart”
― Allen Ginsberg, The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971

“Machine chaos on Earth, Too many bodies, mouths bleeding on every Continent”
― Allen Ginsberg, The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971

“our means in America to control the money munching war machine, bright lit industry”
― Allen Ginsberg, The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971

“We the People - shelling the Vietcong”
― Allen Ginsberg, The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971

“What Patriot wrote that shit?”
― Allen Ginsberg, The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971

“Brainwash cried Romney, the Governor of Pollution”
― Allen Ginsberg, The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971

“Empire State's orange shoulders lifted above the Hell”
― Allen Ginsberg, The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971

“Television concentrates its blue flicker of death in the frontal lobe”
― Allen Ginsberg, The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971

“LSD Shakti-snake settles like Gas into Consciousness”
― Allen Ginsberg, The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971

“...salute the new sunset”
― Allen Ginsberg, The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971

“Slaves of Plastic! Leather-shoe chino-pants prisoners! Haircut junkies! Dacron-shiffers!”
― Allen Ginsberg, The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971

“washing terror-waves round earth-globe back to suburb TV home night kitchens”
― Allen Ginsberg, The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971

“Banks burn, boys die bullet-eyed, mothers scream realization the vast tonnage of napalm”
― Allen Ginsberg, The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971

“The Package is the Product, onomatopoeticized”
― Allen Ginsberg, The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971

“enraptured in hypnotic war”
― Allen Ginsberg, The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971

“Electric Networks spread fear of murder on the streets”
― Allen Ginsberg, The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971

“Forget pleasure and Ambition”
― Allen Ginsberg, The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971

“Unless Chase Bank quits I prophesy blood violence”
― Allen Ginsberg, The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971

“a communist conspiracy among the youth ... speakers on campuses/trained to condition idealistic brains”
― Allen Ginsberg, The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971