Allen-ginsberg Quote by Garth Risk Hallberg

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

— Nat Hentoff

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

— Ai Weiwei

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

— Ai Weiwei

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

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

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

“He sneers so regularly that I suspect he shaves his mustache only to spare his nose the whisker burn.”

— Meredith Duran

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 will not attempt to describe Gin-Rummy in detail as you can call up any insane asylum and get any patient on the ’phone…

— David Parlett

“Denny was not so lucky. The bear’s teeth had clamped down on the side of his head, tearing his scalp and ripping his left…

— Ryan Seek

“The chair legs behind me scrape against the floor, and Douchecanoe shrinks in his seat as over six hundred pounds of angry hockey players…

— Elle Kennedy

“I am a more disinterested Ginsberg admirer than Eddie is. Eddie, so to speak, comes to the table with a croupier’s rake. He works…

— Saul Bellow