The Best Minds of My Generation Quotes

“La generación Beat es sobre todo un movimiento espiritual.”
― Allen Ginsberg, Las mejores mentes de mi generación: Historia literaria de la Generación Beat

“We were interested in areas of consciousness, psychoanalytic anthropology, Spengler. You might say a rebellion against social form, a dissatisfaction with the stereotypes, thought forms, and modes of thinking that we learned in grammar school or something.”
― Allen Ginsberg, The Best Minds of My Generation: A Literary History of the Beats

“black musicians were imitating speech cadences and Kerouac was imitating the black musicians’ breath cadences on their horns and brought it back to speech.”
― Allen Ginsberg, The Best Minds of My Generation: A Literary History of the Beats

“The essence of the phrase “Beat Generation” can also be found in On the Road in another celebrated phrase, “Everything belongs to me because I am poor.”
― Allen Ginsberg, The Best Minds of My Generation: A Literary History of the Beats