A Quote by Ai Weiwei

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

Ai Weiwei

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Ai Weiwei
Chinese - Artist
Born: May 18, 1957

Of course, there are some people who behave rudely. Allen Ginsberg used to like to get up in public and take his clothes off. I don't do that, but I liked Allen Ginsberg. He was a nice guy.

Sam Hamill

I still had to correct Allen Ginsberg at times when he called women girls. I'd say. Allen please, it's not politically correct.

Anne Waldman

[Allen] Ginsberg totally helped that out. He was the best sales person. He was the most pop. They are still shocking and relevant, especially [William] Burroughs.

Yony Leyser

Look at Allen Ginsberg. In poems like 'Kaddish' and 'Howl,' you can hear a cantor between the lines. It's fully alive, and I think that's what's missing in modern poetry. It's too dry and cerebral.

Derek Walcott

Bob Dylan is out of the mentorship of Allen Ginsberg.

Peter Fonda

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

Nat Hentoff

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

Patti Smith

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

Ai Weiwei

I have lots of things that aren't so old that I value, such as a copy of Allen Ginsberg's "Howl," which he signed for me.

Stephen Greenblatt

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

Ai Weiwei

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

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 prefer formal techniques, and use sonnets and rhyme, any manner of scheme to give a shape and order-of feeling as well as argument-to a poem. But all my life, I've also been a person who's made his bed in the morning and picks up the bath mat. That's what I mean by temperament. Whether genetic or acquired, I have a disposition to arrangements. One is born with this, as if with blue eyes or a weak heart. Do you think Allen Ginsberg ever put the cap back on his toothpaste?

J. D. McClatchy

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!

Rita Dove

Allen Ginsberg is a tremendous warrior as time goes by. He's a warrior first and a poet second.

Ken Kesey

I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that.

James Dickey

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