Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about…

When I see great boxers, it's like reading a wonderful poem.

— Liam Neeson

“One of Milton’s poems contains the well-known line “Look homeward, Angel, now, and melt with ruth.”

— Bill Bryson

“There's something narcissistic in the phrase "collected poems." Who's collecting them? The poem. How hard is that? That's not a real collection. Now if…

— Nicholson Baker

“One thing to which I am most grateful Is that my work slumbers on,sweetly, Not yet discovered, And shall not conjure that most Haunting…

— Philip Wickham

“It was a page he had Found in the handbook Of heartbreak. Wallace Stevens, “Madame la Fleurie,” Collected Poems I”

— Cornelia Funke

A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival.

— Al Purdy

“Playing ball of wind reaching the other end of The Road Not Taken may I call in Robert Frost by holding hands and request…

— Suman Pokhrel

“The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in…

— Jack Kerouac

“Ginsberg was the favourite bohemian poet of straight college boys who wanted to transgress, and of gay college boys who were not yet ready…

— Christopher Bram

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

— Allen Ginsberg

I think Allen [Ginsberg] was a person who's like a child.

— Ai Weiwei

People keep telling me about the white race and the black race - and it really doesn't make sense. I played Miami, met a…

— Dick Gregory

Forty million Americans smoked marijuana; the only ones who didn’t like it were Judge Ginsberg, Clarence Thomas and Bill Clinton.

— Jay Leno

“Between the whiskers scraggling down his neck and the now-crooked glasses, he could have been the Black Allen Ginsberg.”

— Garth Risk Hallberg

The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in…

— Jack Kerouac