I had parents who were attentive to what was going on politically. There was the Greek connection, a sense of a larger… — 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… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Our need to reimagine our world through the vibratory larynx, that's what matters. Re-awaken the world to itself. Through ideas, pictures, sounds.… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Spiritual models for me are the communities of Tibetans living in exile in India, or the banjars of Bali, which exist in… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
It's so rich as a trope - the whole idea of the road and it being in terms of language, being an… — 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 like the idea of the object, the relic. And I see it as a time machine too or a device you… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
To conjure a particular knowledge you visualize an architectural structure and then you walk around and see the details that then bring… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
I think for me in terms of this kind of dichotomy you have to hold the sense of negative capability in your… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
I think the idea of the lone tormented artist - which we can apply to others - I think that it needs… — 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