We humans need to do better with our vast minds and alchemical powers. Future radial poetries might be more symbiotic with the… — 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
For me poems are acts re-done, and that can vibrate well into the future. — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
I still had to correct Allen Ginsberg at times when he called women girls. I'd say. Allen please, it's not politically correct. — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
This will be a good time for poetry, you know, when things get darker and stranger and your very speech is being… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
The challenge lies in the fact that the planet has limited time. Be it climate change or nuclear fallout, there is very… — 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
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
How can you work on letting your thoughts go and getting synchronized into the moment and questioning your wild imagination. But I… — 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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