Top Anne Waldman Quotes - Quotesmemo.com

Anne Waldman Biography

Anne Waldman (born April 2, 1945) is an American poet. Since the 1960s, Waldman has been an active member of the Outrider experimental poetry community as a writer, performer, collaborator, professor, editor, scholar, and cultural/political activist. She has also been connected to the Beat poets.

Read about Anne Waldman in Wikipedia

Random Authors

Anne Waldman Quotes

The dichotomies, the brokenness of the culture around things like the Vietnam war, and then a lot of it has to do with war and where we put our energy and money and attention. And the military industrial complex, which dominates our whole economy. Even with the vision of democracy in other places we know the dark side.

Brokenness, Dark, Military, Side, War

Various random experiments, cut-ups, fold-ins, juxtapositions, timed writings of other kinds, the "objects assignment" which involves dream, adventure, ancestry. Writing outside, writing on moving vehicles. Looking at paintings in the grand museums of the world in a proscribed way. Little strategies to keep the lalita - play or dance - going. Sometimes it's lonely you know, just you and your own imagination.

Dream, Lonely, Moving, Play, World, Assignment

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

Continuity, Fifties, Look, Looks, Streams

I think the idea of the lone tormented artist - which we can apply to others - I think that it needs to be revisited. Jack Kerouac needs to be seen in the context of a lot of other artistic activity.

Artist, Idea, Ideas, Think, Thinking, Tormented

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 lotus posture or whatever it is. That's what you're doing.

Buddhist, Kind, Lotuses, Taking, Training

The music is notated first, the text follows. I might have to wait until the right kind of text or form arises. I often see the poems as “scores. ”

Firsts, Kind, Might, Scores, Text, Waiting

I get very upset when money is being cut and people can't visit the Grand Canyon.

Canyon, Cut, Cutting, Grand, People, Upset

I'm drawn to the magical efficacies of language as a political act.

Act, Efficacy, Language, Magical, Political

There are energies that reside in each phone and phoneme. And we can release them. And it can be grand and vast and you can create a realm where you can dwell for a while. Where things are perfect symbols of themselves, no manipulation. And that connects to me to the Buddhist view. From that perspective we can wake up on the spot, be conscious of our world, think of others.

Buddhist, Thinking, Phones, Think, Manipulation, Perfect

What I propose for the "life of a poet" goes against the grain of the fossil fuel monoculture. Maybe the most revolutionary act these days is not to watch television and to read a book a day at least.

Book, Watches, Television, Revolutionary, Grain, Watch

I had a student some years ago whose father had worked on the Manhattan Project. I had a student who had to escape this very intense, born-again fundamentalist Christian background that was very much like a cult and of course they struggle to get to Naropa. And they have cut themselves off. They don't look back.

Christian, Course, Father, Fundamentalist, Struggle

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 of the earth. And I live frequently on the spine of the continent, near the Great Divide. Then there's the side of it being the real energy center for a truly post-postmodernist poetry mind, which is also archaic, because we can still be close to the land.

America, Energy, Everywhere, Land, Mind, Real

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

Coming, Father, People, Situation, Think, Thinking

My teachers were often very eccentric.

Eccentric, Teacher, Teachers

We need a world-wide Department of Peace.

Department, Needs, Peace, World

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 aspiration, that yearning, get out of the small town, connect to a larger world, get yourself to New York, wanting to play the piano at every opportunity, bonding with people who were on a similar path, ending up in Provincetown, which was kind of nexus for nonconformity, and artistic dropout reality.

Father, Growing Up, New York, Nexus, Provincetown, Similar

We had much more imagery from Vietnam war. The media was not controlled. The storyline, the master narrative was not controlled. I thin it was some those images really radicalized people and shifted things to some extent. And the Viet Cong also, their tenacity.

Media, People, Radicalized, Things, War

If I smashed the traditions it was because I knew no traditions. I'm the girl with the unquenchable thirst.

Girl, Thirst, Tradition, Traditions, Unquenchable

I remember being caught in this earthquake in Mexico City and having a sense of people coming before me, of being part of this lineage. I felt similarly when I went to India and South America.

America, Cities, Earthquakes, Felt, Having, Sense

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

Mean, Skillful, Technology, Use

1