"Ginsberg has demonstrated that there is nothing in American social and erotic reality which cannot find a place [in poetry] . . . [His] powerful mixture of Blake, Whitman, Pound, and Williams, to which he added his own volatile, grotesque, and tender humor, has assured him a memorable place in modern poetry." – Helen Vendler
"Taken all together, Ginsberg's poems are X-rays of a considerable part of American society during the last four decades." – The New Yorker
"Ginsberg is both tragic and dynamic, a lyrical genius...probably the single greatest influence on American poetical voice since Whitman." – Bob Dylan
