"What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance……" — Rita Dove
"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 the front page. He electrified an entire world!"
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74 Quotes by Rita Dove
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One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before…
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The First Book: Go ahead, it won't bite. Well... maybe a little. More a nip, like. A tingle. It's pleasurable,…
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When I was young, I was older than I am today.
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For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about…
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All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back…
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Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us…
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The American Dream is a phrase we'll have to wrestle with all of our lives. It means a lot of…
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The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen…
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In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process…
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There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise…
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It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I…
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If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're…
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More Allen Quotes
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But guys such as Allen and William are more supportive than most men.
— Kathy Acker
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Woody Allen has a wonderful line: 'Today I'm a star. What will I be tomorrow? A black hole?' That's very…
— Marina Abramovic
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The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an…
— Jack Kerouac
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I'm like a fatter version of Amy Winehouse and a skinnier version of Lily Allen.
— Katy Perry
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[T]he Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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There was always news coming back to the quarter about someone who had been killed or sent to prison for…
— Ulysses S. Grant
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Don Knotts was a really big influence, especially on the Steve Allen show. I mean, look at the guy, his…
— Tim Conway
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I'm a big fan of 'Woody Allen' movies, so I like all the actresses in his movies like 'Diane Keaton'…
— Emily Perkins
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I was voted best-looking kid in high school but, as you can see, things changed. I used to say I…
— James Gandolfini
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When I can't sleep, I read a book by Steve Allen.
— Oscar Levant
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I tried to commit suicide one day. It was a very Woody Allen-type suicide. I turned on the gas and…
— Elton John
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Bob Dylan is out of the mentorship of Allen Ginsberg.
— Peter Fonda
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