Ginsberg Quotes

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

— Jack Kerouac

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

— Jay Leno

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

— Dick Gregory

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

— Ai Weiwei

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

— Allen Ginsberg

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

— Christopher Bram

I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it…

— James Dickey

My last bedside conversation in the hospital just a few weeks before Allen Ginsberg died was 'please take care of so and…

— Anne Waldman

[Polythene Pam] was me, remembering a little event with a woman in Jersey, and a man who was England's answer to Allen…

— John Lennon

Allen [ Ginsberg] was a particular friend, one of my heroes, really. I knew him almost as long as I've been writing.

— Hunter S. Thompson

It's tough to make funny films. And the truth is, with this process, especially if you write your own movie, then you're…

— Dan Mazer

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

— Thom Gunn

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

— Ken Kesey

I think the thing I really got from Ginsberg was that you can tell a story through kind of painting pictures with…

— Lana Del Rey

I never did know exactly what was meant by the term "The Beats," but let's say that the original meeting, association, comradeship…

— Gary Snyder

I saw [Allen Ginsberg] more as an old man who liked poetry and who had a lot of physical and emotional problems.…

— Ai Weiwei

I never really read Allen Ginsberg poetry, even though I have a book he gave me.

— Ai Weiwei

[Allen] Ginsberg totally helped that out. He was the best sales person. He was the most pop. They are still shocking and…

— Yony Leyser

Writing and rewriting are the same thing to me. I don't believe what Allen Ginsberg said that "first thought, then - "…

— Lynne Tillman

I prefer formal techniques, and use sonnets and rhyme, any manner of scheme to give a shape and order-of feeling as well…

— J. D. McClatchy

Of course, there are some people who behave rudely. Allen Ginsberg used to like to get up in public and take his…

— Sam Hamill

See, you can't rewrite, 'cause to rewrite is to deceive and lie, and you betray your own thoughts. To rethink the flow…

— David Cronenberg

My style of performance poetry came from the beatniks, Allen Ginsberg.

— Patti Smith

I have lots of things that aren't so old that I value, such as a copy of Allen Ginsberg's "Howl," which he…

— Stephen Greenblatt

Bob Dylan is out of the mentorship of Allen Ginsberg.

— Peter Fonda