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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…

— James Dickey

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

— Ai Weiwei

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

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

— Thom Gunn

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

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

— Nat Hentoff

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

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

— Patti Smith

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

But like a born actor who only really wants to direct, Gingrich has always been unsatisfied with what he's brilliant at. He can't still…

— John Podhoretz

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

— Ai Weiwei

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