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
We can think for ourselves and we can awaken the world to a greater consciousness. — 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
I was going to public school in the post-World War II, the grey doldrum years. But I was in this extraordinary environment… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
America's the great conundrum and the great dream and the great fascination: the new land, the new world, the new temple, the… — 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
There are energies that reside in each phone and phoneme. And we can release them. And it can be grand and vast… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Myths, by their definition, involve transformations, struggles through various worlds or layers of reality and of obscuration. — 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
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
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
We have a motto at Naropa: 'Keep the world safe for poetry.' It's humorous but has some real bite to it. If… — 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 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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