--- title: "6 Kerouac Quotes By Anne Waldman" description: "6 Kerouac quotes by Anne Waldman. Plus more from Anne Waldman and more Kerouac sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c5b/anne-waldman-4046_feds_as-a-woman-i-have-felt-encouraged-and-fe_986092.png" --- > [ As a woman I have felt encouraged and fed by and nurtured by the work of \[Jack\] Kerouac and others. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-waldman/as-a-woman-i-have-felt-encouraged-and-fed-by-and-nurtured-by-the-work/) [Anne Waldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-waldman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c5b/anne-waldman-4046_feds_as-a-woman-i-have-felt-encouraged-and-fe_986092.png) > [In my teen years and early twenties I was really interested in this fellaheen worlds that, of course, Kerouac invokes and wanting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-waldman/in-my-teen-years-and-early-twenties-i-was-really-interested-in-this/) [Anne Waldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-waldman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cfa/anne-waldman-4046_borders_in-my-teen-years-and-early-twenties-i-wa_1954249.png) > [ \[Jack\] Kerouac looking at the fellaheen worlds. Looking at other cultures. Welcoming it, curious. Really stepping outside his own limited, whatever that… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-waldman/jack-kerouac-looking-at-the-fellaheen-worlds-looking-at-other/) [Anne Waldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-waldman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dfb/anne-waldman-4046_can-do_jack-kerouac-looking-at-the-fellaheen-wo_2348643.png) > [I think Visions of Cody is the most radical book in terms of poetic stretch and the way Jack Kerouac is able…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-waldman/i-think-visions-of-cody-is-the-most-radical-book-in-terms-of-poetic/) [Anne Waldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-waldman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ca9/anne-waldman-4046_able_i-think-visions-of-cody-is-the-most-radi_2825497.jpg) > [ When \[Allen\] Ginsberg and I founded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics - that was 1974 - we referred to it… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-waldman/when-allen-ginsberg-and-i-founded-the-jack-kerouac-school-of/) [Anne Waldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-waldman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a5f/anne-waldman-4046_autonomous_when-allen-ginsberg-and-i-founded-the-ja_2839594.jpg) > [I think the idea of the lone tormented artist - which we can apply to others - I think that it needs…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-waldman/i-think-the-idea-of-the-lone-tormented-artist-which-we-can-apply-to/) [Anne Waldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-waldman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/202/anne-waldman-4046_activity_i-think-the-idea-of-the-lone-tormented-a_3107115.png) ## Other authors on Kerouac ## More by Anne Waldman > [I get worked up over an 'idea' or the ethos of an idea. I follow dreams, take notes on travels, and engage in research…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-waldman/i-get-worked-up-over-an-idea-or-the-ethos-of-an-idea-i-follow-dreams/) [Anne Waldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-waldman/) > [ We pride ourselves at Natrona - I mean, pride {ironically\] - on developing a noncompetitive community. That's very important. The values that can come… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-waldman/we-pride-ourselves-at-natrona-i-mean-pride-ironically-on-developing-a/) [Anne Waldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-waldman/) > [My father was a frustrated writer. I think he wanted to write the great American novel.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-waldman/my-father-was-a-frustrated-writer-i-think-he-wanted-to-write-the/) [Anne Waldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-waldman/) > [No one begs you to be a poet or write a 1000-page poem. You have to be fueled by a drive, a conviction -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-waldman/no-one-begs-you-to-be-a-poet-or-write-a-1000-page-poem-you-have-to-be/) [Anne Waldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-waldman/for-me-there-is-a-poesis-a-poetics-around-the-trope-of-the-road-that/) [Anne Waldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-waldman/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-waldman/there-s-a-kind-of-training-when-you-are-sitting-in-a-session-in-the/) [Anne Waldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-waldman/) > [I had parents who were attentive to what was going on politically. There was the Greek connection, a sense of a larger world. People…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-waldman/i-had-parents-who-were-attentive-to-what-was-going-on-politically/) [Anne Waldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-waldman/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-waldman/in-a-way-america-s-the-shadow-of-everything-i-do-everywhere-i-go/) [Anne Waldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-waldman/) > [When I look at my life there are these streams, these things that have continuity from the fifties to now.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-waldman/when-i-look-at-my-life-there-are-these-streams-these-things-that-have/) [Anne Waldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-waldman/we-humans-need-to-do-better-with-our-vast-minds-and-alchemical-powers/) [Anne Waldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-waldman/) > [ I think anything that gets people outside \[is good\] - I'm a big supporter of public parks and public spaces. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-waldman/i-think-anything-that-gets-people-outside-is-good-i-m-a-big-supporter/) [Anne Waldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-waldman/) > [Idea that all the beats are wildly liberal and progressive is ridiculous. You have people thinking for themselves and having certain affinities because of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-waldman/idea-that-all-the-beats-are-wildly-liberal-and-progressive-is/) [Anne Waldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-waldman/i-think-of-my-father-born-in-this-very-small-limited-situation-and/) [Anne Waldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-waldman/) > [When I attended the Berkeley Poetry Conference in 1965, I was very inspired. The collaboration of many poets from these alternative traditions - though…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-waldman/when-i-attended-the-berkeley-poetry-conference-in-1965-i-was-very/) [Anne Waldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-waldman/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-waldman/one-has-to-be-cautious-and-respectful-of-the-power-of-the-substance/) [Anne Waldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-waldman/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/kerouac/anne-waldman/#itemlist", "name": "6 Kerouac Quotes By Anne Waldman", "numberOfItems": 6, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "As a woman I have felt encouraged and fed by and nurtured by the work of [Jack] Kerouac and others.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Anne Waldman" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-waldman/as-a-woman-i-have-felt-encouraged-and-fed-by-and-nurtured-by-the-work/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c5b/anne-waldman-4046_feds_as-a-woman-i-have-felt-encouraged-and-fe_986092.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c5b/anne-waldman-4046_feds_as-a-woman-i-have-felt-encouraged-and-fe_986092.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c5b/anne-waldman-4046_feds_as-a-woman-i-have-felt-encouraged-and-fe_986092.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“As a woman I have felt encouraged and fed by and nurtured by the work of [Jack] Kerouac and others.” — Anne Waldman", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "In my teen years and early twenties I was really interested in this fellaheen worlds that, of course, Kerouac invokes and wanting to go below the border and wanting to get to these other places or interstices of the culture where you were encountering the realities of these other kinds of cultures, experiences, language, I think of jazz culture of course.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Anne Waldman" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-waldman/in-my-teen-years-and-early-twenties-i-was-really-interested-in-this/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cfa/anne-waldman-4046_borders_in-my-teen-years-and-early-twenties-i-wa_1954249.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cfa/anne-waldman-4046_borders_in-my-teen-years-and-early-twenties-i-wa_1954249.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cfa/anne-waldman-4046_borders_in-my-teen-years-and-early-twenties-i-wa_1954249.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“In my teen years and early twenties I was really interested in this fellaheen worlds that, of course…” — Anne Waldman", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "[Jack] Kerouac looking at the fellaheen worlds. 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