I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix.

Howl, Beat poet

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From 'Howl', his most famous poem

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1956

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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49303/howl

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