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My teachers were often very eccentric.
— 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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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