Ginsberg Quotes

I admire Ginsberg as a poet, despite the fact that he seems not to know when he is being good and when he is bad. But he will last, or at least those poems will last.
Leslie Fiedler

Good, Bad, Fact

Allen Ginsberg is a tremendous warrior as time goes by. He's a warrior first and a poet second.
Ken Kesey

Time, Warrior, Second

What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world!
Rita Dove

Death, Bring, Took

I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys.
Harvey Pekar

Book, Research, Generation

Alan Ginsberg was fabulous. The man is so filled with energy. He's 65 years old and he's just loaded with energy and charm and wit and his mind is constantly racing.
Ray Manzarek

Mind, Old, Energy

Bob Dylan is out of the mentorship of Allen Ginsberg.
Peter Fonda

Bob, Allen, Dylan

Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady.
Thom Gunn

Wonderful, Making, Poem

Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.
David Amram

Politics, Knowledge, Writing

I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that.
James Dickey

Poetry, Live, Mean

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