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Irwin Allen Ginsberg, né le 3 juin 1926 à Newark et mort le 5 avril 1997 à New York, est un poète américain, membre fondateur de la Beat Generation, du mouvement hippie et de la contre-culture américaine. Ses prises de position homosexuelles, pacifistes et bouddhistes lui valurent de fréquents démêlés avec la justice. Son œuvre, scandaleuse dans les années 1960, fut récompensée à partir des années 1970. Wikipedia  

✵ 3. juin 1926 – 5. avril 1997
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Allen Ginsberg: 76 citations0 J'aime

Allen Ginsberg: Citations en anglais

“Follow your inner moonlight, don’t hide the madness.”

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Allen Ginsberg livre Howl and Other Poems

Variante: Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.
Source: Howl and Other Poems

“Not even the human
imagination satisfies
the endless emptiness of the soul.”

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Allen Ginsberg livre Reality Sandwiches

Source: Reality Sandwiches

“The weight of the world is love.
Under the burden of solitude,
under the burden of dissatisfaction
the weight, the weight we carry is love.”

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“Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.”

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Allen Ginsberg

“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.”

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“Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.”

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Allen Ginsberg

“If I had a soul I sold it
for pretty words
If I had a body I used
it up spurting my essence

Allen Ginsberg warns you
dont follow my path
to extinction”

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Allen Ginsberg

“I don't do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision.”

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Source: The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice: First Journals and Poems 1937-1952

“Which way will the sunflower turn surrounded by millions of suns?”

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Allen Ginsberg

Source: Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems

“Another lover hits the universe. The circle is broken. But with death comes rebirth. And like all lovers and sad people, I am a poet.”

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Allen Ginsberg

“I smoke marijuana every chance I get.”

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Allen Ginsberg

America (1956)

“Everything is holy! everybody's holy! everywhere is holy! everyday is in eternity! Everyman's an angel!”

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Allen Ginsberg livre Howl and Other Poems

Source: Howl and Other Poems

“I never dreamed the sea so deep,
The earth so dark; so long my sleep,
I have become another child.
I wake to see the world go wild.”

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Allen Ginsberg

“I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd.”

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Allen Ginsberg livre Howl and Other Poems

Source: Howl and Other Poems

“My books piled up before me for my use waiting in space where I placed them, they haven't disappeared, time's left its remnants and qualities for me to use -- my words piled up, my texts, my manuscripts, my loves.”

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Allen Ginsberg livre Howl and Other Poems

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“A naked lunch is natural to us
We eat reality sandwiches.
But allegories are so much lettuce.
Don't hide the madness.”

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“What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families shopping at night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!--and you, Garcia Lorca, what were you doing down by the watermelons?”

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Allen Ginsberg livre Howl and Other Poems

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“what sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination”

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Allen Ginsberg livre Howl and Other Poems

Source: Howl and Other Poems

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