I get worked up over an 'idea' or the ethos of an idea. I follow dreams, take notes on travels, and engage… — 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
I invoke that sense of the particulars of that kind of literal travel and what that has meant historically in terms of… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
America's the great conundrum and the great dream and the great fascination: the new land, the new world, the new temple, the… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Various random experiments, cut-ups, fold-ins, juxtapositions, timed writings of other kinds, the "objects assignment" which involves dream, adventure, ancestry. Writing outside, writing… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
I think Visions of Cody is the most radical book in terms of poetic stretch and the way Jack Kerouac is able… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
A lot of my life has involved with helping create cultures that have as their basis this vision of the sharing, the… — 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 Image
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 Image
My father was a frustrated writer. I think he wanted to write the great American novel. — 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 conviction -… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
When I look at my life there are these streams, these things that have continuity from the fifties to now. — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
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 Image
I think anything that gets people outside [is good] - I'm a big supporter of public parks and public spaces. — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
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 Image
![“I invoke that sense of the particulars of that kind of literal travel and what that has meant historically in terms of diasporas, in terms of the migrations of immigrants coming to this [U.S.] country with a real vision of finding the promised land.” quote by Anne Waldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/afa/anne-waldman-4046_country_i-invoke-that-sense-of-the-particulars-o_629418.jpg)
![“We pride ourselves at Natrona - I mean, pride {ironically] - on developing a noncompetitive community. That's very important. The values that can come from that kind of meditative work combined with the creative work you do, combined with your activism, can come together.” quote by Anne Waldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/392/anne-waldman-4046_activism_we-pride-ourselves-at-natrona-i-mean-pri_100312.jpg)
![“I had parents who were attentive to what was going on politically. There was the Greek connection, a sense of a larger world. People coming in from abroad. There was a sense of community around ideas: a discourse and an adhesiveness which is my favorite word from [Walt] Whitman.” quote by Anne Waldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d65/anne-waldman-4046_community_i-had-parents-who-were-attentive-to-what_388144.jpg)
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