Able Quote by Anne Waldman

I think of my father growing up in South Jersey, the son of second-generation German immigrant glassblowers. The opportunities for him of feeling that…

— Anne Waldman

For many years, I was trying to catch up and fit in a little bit more with that New York artsy intellectual space.

— Lee Isaac Chung

If you look at the Directory of American Poets and Writers, you know there are hundreds of poets in New York City. So therefore,…

— Ted Kooser

What interested me the most was that when I [traveled to Europe] I knew what Joseph Beuys was doing, he knew what I was…

— Lawrence Weiner

I had a million jobs before I managed to make a living out of poetry.

— John Cooper Clarke

There are a lot of writers from the South who would probably have once figured they needed to go to New York to make…

— Donald Ray Pollock

There is an extraordinary degree of amity among Washington poets. They hang together. You would be hard pressed to find that in Manhattan.

— Maxine Kumin

The last publicized center of American writing was Manhattan. Its writers became known as the New York Intellectuals. With important connections to publishing, and…

— Ishmael Reed

I just saw a recent television program about art, and it was saying how from the end of the Second World War, so much…

— Robert Wyatt

You really felt a radical shift in the advance of a poetics that had really been engendered by [Walt] Whitman. This was very exciting.…

— Anne Waldman

I moved to New York in the 1970s and started writing when I was at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.

— Jenny Holzer

I graduated in June 1948 and then went in the fall to the art school. I stayed with my cousins on Seventeenth Street in…

— Paul Smith