I want the poem to be an experience - for both the listener and for myself. — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
For me poems are acts re-done, and that can vibrate well into the future. — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
I took my vow to poetry; this is where I'm going to be. These are my people; this is my tribe. This… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Poets have to keep pushing, pushing, against the darkness, and write their way out of it as well. — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
The music is notated first, the text follows. I might have to wait until the right kind of text or form arises.… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
This will be a good time for poetry, you know, when things get darker and stranger and your very speech is being… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
I know when I go to a poetry reading, I feel purged, exulted. You let the poet guide you through some kind… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
I call what I do 'modal structures.' Sometimes they're songs, sometimes they're longer, sometimes they're this mantra - I've never called myself… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
I hope I'm not implying role of contemporary poet for myself, although there's a kind of resonant paradigm. It's traditionally a difficult… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
We have a motto at Naropa: 'Keep the world safe for poetry.' It's humorous but has some real bite to it. If… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
My mother actually left American in 1929 to be part of an alternative community of bohemians around her then father-in-law who was… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
What I propose for the "life of a poet" goes against the grain of the fossil fuel monoculture. Maybe the most revolutionary… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
When I attended the Berkeley Poetry Conference in 1965, I was very inspired. The collaboration of many poets from these alternative traditions… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
My love of poetry comes from the "actualization" I experienced in the poetry of others. And I was reading it silently and… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
The formal stuff feels old and windy. Not to say you shouldn't know prosody. But it's a wonderful time for exploratory poetics.… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
No one begs you to be a poet or write a 1000-page poem. You have to be fueled by a drive, a… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Your compassion travels beyond your own inner circle. And then you breathe out an alternative version where you mentally and emotionally and… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
I am a poet, bard, scop, minnesinger, trobairitz who is driven by sound and the possibilities for vocal expression, the mouthing of… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
The puzzle and conundrums of Emily Dickinson's poetry or The Cantos, by Ezra Pound, is infinitely pleasurable. Or Ronald Johnson's Ark. And… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
When students are first at the Kerouac School we harp on Gertrude Stein's very basic poetic insistence that words are things .… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
There's that older poem of John Ashbery's-"America"-with the pun "I'm a wrecker," so wreckage and building out of the ashes of that.… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
In a way, America's the shadow of everything I do, everywhere I go, everything I carry, no matter if I travel to… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
It was really hard coming to terms with the Nazi history. Then in my twenties I was traveling to Germany. There was… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
When I got back to NY had the opportunity to work with the beginning years of the poetry project which was founded… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
How can you work on letting your thoughts go and getting synchronized into the moment and questioning your wild imagination. But I… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
I get worked up over an 'idea' or the ethos of an idea. I follow dreams, take notes on travels, and engage in research… — Anne Waldman Copy Share
We pride ourselves at Natrona - I mean, pride {ironically] - on developing a noncompetitive community. That's very important. The values that can come… — Anne Waldman Copy Share
My father was a frustrated writer. I think he wanted to write the great American novel. — Anne Waldman Copy Share
No one begs you to be a poet or write a 1000-page poem. You have to be fueled by a drive, a conviction -… — Anne Waldman Copy Share
For me there is a poesis, a poetics, around the trope of the road that is embedded within many life experiences of the people… — Anne Waldman Copy Share
There's a kind of training, when you are sitting in a session in the Japanese tradition or any of the Buddhist traditions, taking your… — Anne Waldman Copy Share
I had parents who were attentive to what was going on politically. There was the Greek connection, a sense of a larger world. People… — Anne Waldman Copy Share
In a way, America's the shadow of everything I do, everywhere I go, everything I carry, no matter if I travel to the ends… — Anne Waldman Copy Share
When I look at my life there are these streams, these things that have continuity from the fifties to now. — Anne Waldman Copy Share
We humans need to do better with our vast minds and alchemical powers. Future radial poetries might be more symbiotic with the rest of… — Anne Waldman Copy Share
I think anything that gets people outside [is good] - I'm a big supporter of public parks and public spaces. — Anne Waldman Copy Share
Idea that all the beats are wildly liberal and progressive is ridiculous. You have people thinking for themselves and having certain affinities because of… — Anne Waldman Copy Share
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 Copy Share
When I attended the Berkeley Poetry Conference in 1965, I was very inspired. The collaboration of many poets from these alternative traditions - though… — Anne Waldman Copy Share
One has to be cautious and respectful of the power of the "substance" guides. I don't advocate imbibing the "little saint children," as Maria… — Anne Waldman Copy Share
