Ginsberg Quotes

I am not a Starfleet commander, or T.J. Hooker. I don`t live on Starship NCC-1701, or own a phaser. And I don`t know anybody named Bones, Sulu, or Spock. And no, I`ve never had green alien sex, though I`m sure it would be quite an evening. I speak English and French, not Klingon! I drink Labatt`s, not Romulan ale! And when someone says to me `Live long and prosper`, I seriously mean it when I say, `Get a life`. My doctor`s name is not McCoy, it`s Ginsberg. And tribbles were puppets, not real animals. PUPPETS! And when I speak, I never, ever talk like every. Word. Is. Its. Own. Sentence. I live in California, but I was raised in Montreal. And yes, I`ve gone where no man has gone before, but I was in Mexico and her father gave me permission! My name is William Shatner, and I am Canadian!

Ginsberg`s Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady.

Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.

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.

Bob Dylan is out of the mentorship of Allen Ginsberg.

Alan Ginsberg was fabulous. The man is so filled with energy. He`s 65 years old and he`s just loaded with energy and charm and wit and his mind is constantly racing.

I`m doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys.

I admire Ginsberg as a poet, despite the fact that he seems not to know when he is being good and when he is bad. But he will last, or at least those poems will last.

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!