Care Quote 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…

— 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…

— Anne Waldman

My father was a frustrated writer. I think he wanted to write the great American novel.

— 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 -…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Anne Waldman

When I look at my life there are these streams, these things that have continuity from the fifties to now.

— 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…

— Anne Waldman

I think anything that gets people outside [is good] - I'm a big supporter of public parks and public spaces.

— 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…

— Anne Waldman