If you can integrate your life to have a kind of meditative practice that is considering others. — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Think of the road as a kind of zone and a site of incredible diversity. — 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
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
We pride ourselves at Natrona - I mean, pride {ironically] - on developing a noncompetitive community. That's very important. The values that… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
The beat literary movement is strong because of those very challenging and individual relationships and styles and contention and so on. So… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
I'm curious about other universes, and nonhuman elementals. For me it's still a very lively ethos. It's a kind of practice. It's… — 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
There's a kind of training, when you are sitting in a session in the Japanese tradition or any of the Buddhist traditions,… — 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
I think of my father growing up in South Jersey, the son of second-generation German immigrant glassblowers. The opportunities for him of… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
In my teen years and early twenties I was really interested in this fellaheen worlds that, of course, Kerouac invokes and wanting… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
One has to be cautious and respectful of the power of the "substance" guides. I don't advocate imbibing the "little saint children,"… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
World War II synchronizes things for a lot of people. There's a kind of wakeup call. — 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
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
There is a pretty interesting document called 'action writing.' Which is not all about spontaneity and first thought, best thought,' but a… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
I don't demonize the downside. As we've seen in Egypt and Tahrir square and other recent event, the adhesiveness through [technology] kinds… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
[Jack] Kerouac looking at the fellaheen worlds. Looking at other cultures. Welcoming it, curious. Really stepping outside his own limited, whatever that… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
I did go to Vietnam in 2000 as a kind of pilgrimage and to feel my generation was very much a part… — 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
When [Allen] Ginsberg and I founded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics - that was 1974 - we referred to it… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
The color red is symbolic of passion and action, so this Vajrayogini, as she's called, comes with a mantra and she comes… — 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 don't demonize the downside. As we've seen in Egypt and Tahrir square and other recent event, the adhesiveness through [technology] kinds of communication is extraordinary. Interesting times we live in.” quote by Anne Waldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/55a/anne-waldman-4046_communication_i-don-t-demonize-the-downside-as-we-ve-s_3155907.jpg)
![“[Jack] Kerouac looking at the fellaheen worlds. Looking at other cultures. Welcoming it, curious. Really stepping outside his own limited, whatever that narrow world was. It's amazing to think we can do it. We can have that same kind of trajectory of mind.” quote by Anne Waldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/dfb/anne-waldman-4046_can-do_jack-kerouac-looking-at-the-fellaheen-wo_2348643.jpg)
![“When [Allen] Ginsberg and I founded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics - that was 1974 - we referred to it by a term used by Sufi thinker Hakim Bey, as "temporary autonomous zones." That for me sums up some of Whitman's sense of a community of likeminded people with a certain kind of…” quote by Anne Waldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a5f/anne-waldman-4046_autonomous_when-allen-ginsberg-and-i-founded-the-ja_2839594.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)
![“I think anything that gets people outside [is good] - I'm a big supporter of public parks and public spaces.” quote by Anne Waldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ff5/anne-waldman-4046_bigs_i-think-anything-that-gets-people-outsid_460472.jpg)
