Quotes by Anne Waldman

Anne Waldman

[Jack] Kerouac looking at the fellaheen worlds. Looking at other cultures. Welcoming it, curious. Really stepping outside his own limited, whatever that narrow world was. It’s amazing to think we can do it. We can have that same kind of trajectory of mind.

Mind

Other Cultures

Thinking

A lot of my father’s generation were thinking about communism and had deep liberal and progressive connections. He never admitted whether he was a card-carrying communist party member but I think its possible.

Father

Party

Thinking

A lot of my life has involved with helping create cultures that have as their basis this vision of the sharing, the partaking of a certain ethos together.

Ethos

Together

Vision

Allen’s [Gisberg] loyalty to his friends was extraordinary. And as he was dying he was calling people: “What can I do for you before I die? Do you need money? What can I do?”.

Dying

Loyalty

People

Any technology is just a skillful means and it’s how you use it.

Mean

Technology

Use

As a woman I have felt encouraged and fed by and nurtured by the work of [Jack] Kerouac and others.

Feds

Felt

Connection to Buddhism is strand in my life.

Buddhism

Connections

Strands

For me the road became a zone, in places like Saint Marks poetry Project where I worked for 12 years.

Projects

Saint

Years

Growing up in the fifties, having to wear a dog tag, having to take shelter in a bomb shelter. That turned me toward the road, I did not want to live in fear of that, I was gong to work somehow against what that vision was, and what that horror was. It was poetry, art, music.

Art

Dog

Growing Up

How infuriating it is to be continually born to war that continues one’s whole lifetime, even as one protests it – what futility. It is perhaps a more public epic in this regard, and carries a ritual vocalization.

Epic

Lifetime

War

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Able

Alive

America

Ark

Art

Artist

Believe

Blue

Book

Buddhism

Buddhist

Care

Children

Circles

Cities

Color

Communication

Compassion

Connections

Continents

Country

Creative

Cutting

Democratic

Dog

Doors

Dream

Dying

Eccentric

Egalitarianism

Ego

Egypt

Eight

Energy

Environment

Epic

Erotic

Ethos

Exciting

Father

Feds

Felt

Good Times

Greek

Green

Growing Up

Ideas

Integrating

Jewels

Kind

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Quotes by Anne Waldman

Anne Waldman

[Jack] Kerouac looking at the fellaheen worlds. Looking at other cultures. Welcoming it, curious. Really stepping outside his own limited, whatever that narrow world was. It’s amazing to think we can do it. We can have that same kind of trajectory of mind.

A lot of my father’s generation were thinking about communism and had deep liberal and progressive connections. He never admitted whether he was a card-carrying communist party member but I think its possible.

A lot of my life has involved with helping create cultures that have as their basis this vision of the sharing, the partaking of a certain ethos together.

Allen’s [Gisberg] loyalty to his friends was extraordinary. And as he was dying he was calling people: “What can I do for you before I die? Do you need money? What can I do?”.

Any technology is just a skillful means and it’s how you use it.

As a woman I have felt encouraged and fed by and nurtured by the work of [Jack] Kerouac and others.

Connection to Buddhism is strand in my life.

For me the road became a zone, in places like Saint Marks poetry Project where I worked for 12 years.

Growing up in the fifties, having to wear a dog tag, having to take shelter in a bomb shelter. That turned me toward the road, I did not want to live in fear of that, I was gong to work somehow against what that vision was, and what that horror was. It was poetry, art, music.

How infuriating it is to be continually born to war that continues one’s whole lifetime, even as one protests it – what futility. It is perhaps a more public epic in this regard, and carries a ritual vocalization.

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