Before i die Quote by Anne Waldman

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

— Ai Weiwei

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…

— Rita Dove

Allen Ginsberg was a remarkable guy. He was himself. He was an original.

— Nat Hentoff

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

— Ai Weiwei

I've listened to and know Allen Ginsberg music and met him a couple of times, but I don't have any strong statements to make.

— William S. Burroughs

I never saw [Allen Ginsberg] as some kind of crazy figure.

— Ai Weiwei

“Naturally, I asked him what it'd been like to live through Pinochet's coup and the fall of Allende. Naturally, he regarded me with an…

— Javier Cercas

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

— Garth Risk Hallberg

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…

— Ray Manzarek

“If he was still alive when this was all over, he might try to find a woman he could spend a night with. One…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“And you just said ‘yes’?” “We could use the money.” “Did you take money for saving the Jews?” Conversation between ‘BB’ and his wife…

— Steen Langstrup

“But in the depths of his heart, the older he became, and the more intimately he knew his brother, the more and more frequently…

— Leo Tolstoy