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I get very upset when money is being cut and people can't visit the Grand Canyon. — Anne Waldman

My teachers were often very eccentric. — Anne Waldman

Think of the road as a kind of zone and a site of incredible diversity. — Anne Waldman

My father was a frustrated writer. I think he wanted to write the great American novel. — Anne Waldman

I think anything that gets people outside [is good] - I'm a big supporter of public parks and public spaces. — Anne Waldman

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

We can think for ourselves and we can awaken the world to a greater consciousness. — Anne Waldman

I think of the amazing things that were going on. So it's so rich. The doors keep opening. — Anne Waldman

Personally there is first: imagination; second: the act of writing - and third: the act/act of vocalizing. — Anne Waldman

Any technology is just a skillful means and it's how you use it. — Anne Waldman

My mother started taking us to church when I was in seventh or eight grade. That was always a question, Do you believe in God? — Anne Waldman

Myths, by their definition, involve transformations, struggles through various worlds or layers of reality and of obscuration. — Anne Waldman

As a younger person you can come in through many, many gateways. It's like some huge Mandela. You can enter into this and get refreshed. — Anne Waldman

For me there is a poesis, a poetics, around the trope of the road that is embedded within many life experiences of the people I've been close to. — Anne Waldman

I was raised with a sense of democratic vistas and egalitarianism. — Anne Waldman

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

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

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

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

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. — Anne Waldman

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

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

We need a world-wide Department of Peace. — Anne Waldman

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. — Anne Waldman

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

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. — Anne Waldman

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. — Anne Waldman

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. — Anne Waldman