A Quote by Patti Smith

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

Patti Smith

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Allen Came Ginsberg Performance Poetry Style

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Patti Smith
American - Musician
Born: December 30, 1946

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

Homosexuals are delicate and bad poetry is delicate and [Allen] Ginsberg turned the tables by making homosexual poetry strong poetry, almost manly poetry; but in the long run, the homo will remain the homo and not the poet.

Charles Bukowski

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

Ai Weiwei

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

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'm not just influenced by the '60s - it's who I am. I grew up with Allen Ginsberg and Che Guevara. I flirted with various forms of communism when it was way out of style. It was this really strange and creative time in music and culture, and it was fabulous.

Thom Mayne

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

Nat Hentoff

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

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

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.