Ginsberg Quote by Thom Gunn Download Open image “Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady.” — Thom Gunn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ginsberg Poetry Wonderful
I never really read Allen Ginsberg poetry, even though I have a book he gave me. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
My style of performance poetry came from the beatniks, Allen Ginsberg. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
We had collaborated with Allen Ginsberg on one of his last projects just before he died in the spring of '97, a book called… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I want the poem to be an experience - for both the listener and for myself. — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
“Poetry...is full of visions pulled more from our hearts than from our minds. Our greatest poems are written in the dust of our deepest… — John H Ritter Copy Share Image
“Poetry was a barrier against raw emotions. It distilled them into bearable music, allowed one to accommodate them a little at a time. Alexander… — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
Do you remember any great poet that ever illustrated the higher fields of humanity that did not dignify the use of wine from Homer… — James A. McDougall Copy Share Image
How sociable the garden was. We ate and talked in given light. The children put their toys to grass All the warm wakeful August… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help. — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
I admired what my students were writing, but I think their improvement doesn't directly result from me but from being in a class, being… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
One joins the movement in a valueless world, Choosing it, till both hurler and the hurled, One moves as well, always toward, toward. — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery. — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
I was at a benefit for some imprisoned students in the '60s at San Francisco State, and there were lots of poets reading for… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
“At worse, one is in motion; and at best, Reaching no absolute, in which to rest, One is always nearer by not keeping still.” — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Forty million Americans smoked marijuana; the only ones who didn’t like it were Judge Ginsberg, Clarence Thomas and Bill Clinton. — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
People keep telling me about the white race and the black race - and it really doesn't make sense. I played Miami, met a… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
If I had a soul I sold it for pretty words If I had a body I used it up spurting my essence Allen… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“Ginsberg was the favourite bohemian poet of straight college boys who wanted to transgress, and of gay college boys who were not yet ready… — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
My last bedside conversation in the hospital just a few weeks before Allen Ginsberg died was 'please take care of so and so. And… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
[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… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Allen [ Ginsberg] was a particular friend, one of my heroes, really. I knew him almost as long as I've been writing. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
It's tough to make funny films. And the truth is, with this process, especially if you write your own movie, then you're giving three… — Dan Mazer Copy Share Image
Allen Ginsberg is a tremendous warrior as time goes by. He's a warrior first and a poet second. — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
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