A Quote by Nat Hentoff

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

Nat Hentoff

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Allen Ginsberg Guy Himself Original Remarkable

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Nat Hentoff
American - Novelist
June 10, 1925 - January 7, 2017

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

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

Ai Weiwei

Bob Dylan is out of the mentorship of Allen Ginsberg.

Peter Fonda

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

[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

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

My last bedside conversation in the hospital just a few weeks before Allen Ginsberg died was 'please take care of so and so. And the legacy of the Kerouac school.

Anne Waldman

I never did know exactly what was meant by the term "The Beats," but let's say that the original meeting, association, comradeship of Allen Ginsberg, myself, Michael McClure, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Philip Whalen, who's not here, Lew Welch, who's dead, Gregory Corso, for me, to a somewhat lesser extent (I never knew Gregory as well as the others) did embody a criticism and a vision which we shared in various ways, and then went our own ways for many years.