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Anne Waldman Quotes

Think of the road as a kind of zone and a site of incredible diversity Picture Quote #1

I was raised with a sense of democratic vistas and egalitarianism Picture Quote #1

I was going to public school in the post-World War II, the grey doldrum years. But I was in this extraordinary environment of Manhattan, of Greenwich Village, of bohemian parents Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Contemporary movies just drive me crazy. The violence and the sentimentality and the spiritual materialism and Theism and the incredible indulgence in ignorance is so claustrophobic Picture Quote #1

I think for me in terms of this kind of dichotomy you have to hold the sense of negative capability in your mind - which is Keats line about being able to hold two different ideas ‘without any irritable reach after fact or reason.’ Picture Quote #1

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A lot of my father’s generation were thinking about communism and had deep liberal and progressive connections. He never admitted whether he was a card-carrying communist party member but I think its possible Picture Quote #1

I think of my father born in this very small, limited situation and then coming out of that. Many people have this story Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Growing up in the fifties, having to wear a dog tag, having to take shelter in a bomb shelter. That turned me toward the road, I did not want to live in fear of that, I was gong to work somehow against what that vision was, and what that horror was. It was poetry, art, music Picture Quote #1

I get very upset when money is being cut and people can’t visit the Grand Canyon Picture Quote #1

It’s so rich as a trope - the whole idea of the road and it being in terms of language, being an active experience Picture Quote #1

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Allen’s [Gisberg] loyalty to his friends was extraordinary. And as he was dying he was calling people: What can I do for you before I die? Do you need money? What can I do? Picture Quote #1

If you can integrate your life to have a kind of meditative practice that is considering others Picture Quote #1

My father was a frustrated writer. I think he wanted to write the great American novel Picture Quote #1

I think of the amazing things that were going on. So it’s so rich. The doors keep opening Picture Quote #1

The sense of traveling this continent, also other continents. The friendship.I would say a non-competitive friendship. That is so amazing to me Picture Quote #1

My mother actually left American in 1929 to be part of an alternative community of bohemians around her then father-in-law who was a well-known Greek poet. This group of people were living in this semi-Luddite reality and weaving their own clothes - proto-hippies in a way- -but around an artistic vision Picture Quote #1

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Personally there is first: imagination; second: the act of writing - and third: the act/act of vocalizing Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

If I smashed the traditions it was because I knew no traditions. I’m the girl with the unquenchable thirst Picture Quote #1

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Think of the road as a kind of zone and a site of incredible diversity (Anne Waldman Quotes) I was raised with a sense of democratic vistas and egalitarianism (Anne Waldman Quotes) I was going to public school in the post-World War II, the grey doldrum years. But I was in this extraordinary environment of Manhattan, of Greenwich Village, of bohemian parents. (Anne Waldman Quotes) 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 Quotes) Contemporary movies just drive me crazy. The violence and the sentimentality and the spiritual materialism and Theism and the incredible indulgence in ignorance is so claustrophobic. (Anne Waldman Quotes) I think for me in terms of this kind of dichotomy you have to hold the sense of negative capability in your mind - which is Keats line about being able to hold two different ideas ‘without any irritable reach after fact or reason.’ (Anne Waldman Quotes) A lot of my father’s generation were thinking about communism and had deep liberal and progressive connections. He never admitted whether he was a card-carrying communist party member but I think its possible. (Anne Waldman Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) Growing up in the fifties, having to wear a dog tag, having to take shelter in a bomb shelter. That turned me toward the road, I did not want to live in fear of that, I was gong to work somehow against what that vision was, and what that horror was. It was poetry, art, music. (Anne Waldman Quotes) I get very upset when money is being cut and people can’t visit the Grand Canyon (Anne Waldman Quotes) 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 Quotes) Allen’s [Gisberg] loyalty to his friends was extraordinary. And as he was dying he was calling people: What can I do for you before I die? Do you need money? What can I do?. (Anne Waldman Quotes) If you can integrate your life to have a kind of meditative practice that is considering others (Anne Waldman Quotes) My father was a frustrated writer. I think he wanted to write the great American novel. (Anne Waldman Quotes) I think of the amazing things that were going on. So it’s so rich. The doors keep opening. (Anne Waldman Quotes) The sense of traveling this continent, also other continents. The friendship.I would say a non-competitive friendship. That is so amazing to me. (Anne Waldman Quotes) My mother actually left American in 1929 to be part of an alternative community of bohemians around her then father-in-law who was a well-known Greek poet. This group of people were living in this semi-Luddite reality and weaving their own clothes - proto-hippies in a way- -but around an artistic vision (Anne Waldman Quotes) Personally there is first: imagination; second: the act of writing - and third: the act/act of vocalizing (Anne Waldman Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) If I smashed the traditions it was because I knew no traditions. I’m the girl with the unquenchable thirst (Anne Waldman Quotes)