Claims Quote by James Dickey

I admire Ginsberg as a poet, despite the fact that he seems not to know when he is being good and when he is…

— Leslie Fiedler

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

— Ai Weiwei

It is my belief that many who think they dislike poetry are really poetical in their natures and are indebted to it, more than…

— Orson F. Whitney

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever…

— T. S. Eliot

The major poets of New Jersey have all suffered, whether it's Whitman, who lost his job for 'Leaves of Grass,' or William Carlos Williams,…

— Amiri Baraka

“I refuse to consider Art a drain-pipe for passion, a kind of chamberpot, a slightly more elegant substitute for gossip and confidences. No, no!…

— Gustave Flaubert

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

— Thom Gunn

I look at the great poets of the Soviet Union, like Anna Akhmatova, who endured far worse then anything we've seen or hopefully that…

— Sara Paretsky

Though we do not have many poets, we certainly have more than we deserve, for we deserve none at all. It is ourselves that…

— Elizabeth Janeway

I am an ordinary human being who is impelled to write poetry. ... I still do feel that a poet has a duty to…

— Gwendolyn Brooks

Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many…

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Patti Smith