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
I get very upset when money is being cut and people can't visit the Grand Canyon. — 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
I think of my father born in this very small, limited situation and then coming out of that. Many people have this… — 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… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
We had much more imagery from Vietnam war. The media was not controlled. The storyline, the master narrative was not controlled. I… — 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
I remember being caught in this earthquake in Mexico City and having a sense of people coming before me, of being part… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Allen's [Gisberg] loyalty to his friends was extraordinary. And as he was dying he was calling people: "What can I do for… — 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… — 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
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
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
World War II synchronizes things for a lot of people. There's a kind of wakeup call. — 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
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
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
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![“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)
![“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)
![“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)
