Anne Waldman

I get worked up over an 'idea' or the ethos of an idea. I follow dreams, take notes on travels, and engage…

— Anne Waldman

We pride ourselves at Natrona - I mean, pride {ironically] - on developing a noncompetitive community. That's very important. The values that…

— 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…

— Anne Waldman

For me there is a poesis, a poetics, around the trope of the road that is embedded within many life experiences of…

— 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,…

— Anne Waldman

I had parents who were attentive to what was going on politically. There was the Greek connection, a sense of a larger…

— Anne Waldman

In a way, America's the shadow of everything I do, everywhere I go, everything I carry, no matter if I travel to…

— 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…

— 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…

— Anne Waldman

I think of my father born in this very small, limited situation and then coming out of that. Many people have this…

— Anne Waldman

When I attended the Berkeley Poetry Conference in 1965, I was very inspired. The collaboration of many poets from these alternative traditions…

— Anne Waldman

One has to be cautious and respectful of the power of the "substance" guides. I don't advocate imbibing the "little saint children,"…

— Anne Waldman

I invoke that sense of the particulars of that kind of literal travel and what that has meant historically in terms of…

— Anne Waldman

The sense of traveling this continent, also other continents. The friendship.I would say a non-competitive friendship. That is so amazing to me.

— Anne Waldman

There are energies that reside in each phone and phoneme. And we can release them.

— Anne Waldman

We had much more imagery from Vietnam war. The media was not controlled. The storyline, the master narrative was not controlled. I…

— Anne Waldman

I think of the amazing things that were going on. So it's so rich. The doors keep opening.

— Anne Waldman

There's a numbness in our culture to the continuing horrors of genocide.

— Anne Waldman

What I'm after is that wakeful state through language that stays alive.

— Anne Waldman

My last bedside conversation in the hospital just a few weeks before Allen Ginsberg died was 'please take care of so and…

— Anne Waldman

We can think for ourselves and we can awaken the world to a greater consciousness.

— Anne Waldman

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