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.

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This quote expresses the opinion that Allen Ginsberg's impact on poetry has had negative consequences. It suggests that Ginsberg's style has trivialized the art form, making it accessible to less skillful practitioners who can now claim to be poets by imitating his work. The quote implies a belief that Ginsberg's approach has diluted the integrity and difficulty of the craft that the speaker respects and lives by.

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