A Quote by Ai Weiwei

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

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 saw [Allen Ginsberg] more as an old man who liked poetry and who had a lot of physical and emotional problems. We liked our time together.

Ai Weiwei

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

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

Ai Weiwei

Maybe I haven't been tested, but I have no fear of death at all. I was with Allen Ginsberg during the last year of his life, and he called all his friends and said, 'I'm on my way out, and it's kind of exciting.' I see it as kind of exciting, too.

Thomas McGuane

When [Allen] Ginsberg and I founded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics - that was 1974 - we referred to it by a term used by Sufi thinker Hakim Bey, as "temporary autonomous zones." That for me sums up some of Whitman's sense of a community of likeminded people with a certain kind of adhesiveness and connection and sharing of this ethos.

Anne Waldman

Please don't try and dramatize my relationship with Woody Allen. He was never any kind of father figure to me.

Soon-Yi Previn

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

Nat Hentoff

Bob Dylan is out of the mentorship of Allen Ginsberg.

Peter Fonda

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

Ai Weiwei

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

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

Patti Smith

The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in the late forties, of a generation of crazy, illuminated hipsters suddenly rising and roaming America, serious, bumming and hitchhiking everywhere, ragged, beatific, beautiful in an ugly graceful new way.