Ginsberg Quotes
18 quotes by 18 authors
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The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in the…
— Jack Kerouac
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Bob Dylan is out of the mentorship of Allen Ginsberg.
— Peter Fonda
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[Polythene Pam] was me, remembering a little event with a woman in Jersey, and a man who was England's answer to Allen Ginsberg, who gave…
— John Lennon
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I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys
— Harvey Pekar
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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…
— Rita Dove
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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.…
— Leslie Fiedler
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Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady.
— Thom Gunn
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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…
— Ray Manzarek
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Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth's four volume Haiku became especially popular at this time [1950's] because his translations were based on the assumption that the…
— Reginald Horace Blyth
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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…
— James Dickey
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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
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Allen Ginsberg is a tremendous warrior as time goes by. He's a warrior first and a poet second.
— Ken Kesey
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I wasn't trying to be an outlaw writer. I never heard of that term; somebody else made it up. But we were all outside the…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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See, you can't rewrite, 'cause to rewrite is to deceive and lie, and you betray your own thoughts. To rethink the flow and the rhythm,…
— David Cronenberg
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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…
— Allen Ginsberg
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Forty million Americans smoked marijuana; the only ones who didn’t like it were Judge Ginsberg, Clarence Thomas and Bill Clinton.
— Jay Leno
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I am not a Starfleet commander, or T.J. Hooker. I don't live on Starship NCC-170...[some audience members say 'one'], or own a phaser. And I…
— William Shatner
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Allen Ginsberg once said, Follow your inner moonlight; dont hide the madness. In other words, in this crazy world thats trying to make you like…
— Melchor Lim
Who Wrote These Ginsberg Quotes
18 authors contributed a total of 18 Ginsberg Quotes as follows: