Anne Waldman Famous Quotes & Sayings
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If you can integrate your life to have a kind of meditative practice that is considering others.

Poets have to keep pushing, pushing, against the darkness, and write their way out of it as well.

There are energies that reside in each phone and phoneme. And we can release them.

When I look at my life there are these streams, these things that have continuity from the fifties to now.

I took my vow to poetry; this is where I'm going to be. These are my people; this is my tribe. This is where I'm going to put my energy.

If I smashed the traditions it was because I knew no traditions. I'm the girl with the unquenchable thirst.

I was not ever hitchhiking alone. I've done solo train trips but I've never driven myself alone.

We need a world-wide Department of Peace.

For me poems are acts re-done, and that can vibrate well into the future.

I think of my father born in this very small, limited situation and then coming out of that. Many people have this story.

World War II synchronizes things for a lot of people. There's a kind of wakeup call.

It's so rich as a trope - the whole idea of the road and it being in terms of language, being an active experience.

For me the road became a zone, in places like Saint Marks poetry Project where I worked for 12 years.

The whole red state/blue state thing is very interesting. Watching that shift over the years.

We humans need to do better with our vast minds and alchemical powers. Future radial poetries might be more symbiotic with the rest of consciousness.

I have students whose fathers are voting for Sarah Palin. It's wild.

I grew up in New York City in Greenwich Village and had parents who were somewhat bohemian so I was always on the nonconformist side of the equation.

My older brother was involved in the folk movement. We would gather every weekend in Washington Park. The folk songs were so important to my reality.

I like the idea of the object, the relic. And I see it as a time machine too or a device you plug into a socket that activates a sound and light show.