The beat literary movement is strong because of those very challenging and individual relationships and styles and contention … - Anne Waldman

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You can put a dog in a scene and everyone's going to be better, I guarantee it. And if they're not better, just shoot the dog.

Anne Waldman

The beat literary movement is strong because of those very challenging and individual relationships and styles and contention and so on. So I just feel blessed by this kind of opportunity that came from it. It was a kind of seed.

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

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I'm concerned about the overuse of spectacular places. And there's no real wilderness left and so there's a heartbreak there. You can go anywhere and be rescued through your cell phone and have some helicopter drop down.

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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.

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My love of poetry comes from the "actualization" I experienced in the poetry of others. And I was reading it silently and there is deep pleasure in that intimacy, a mind-to-mind transfer going on. All the music is there, inherently. And mystery as well.

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

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I've always considered myself a workaholic. . . The way I work, I have to turn myself upside down and hang myself by my ankles and wring myself out like a wet sweater, and I have to do that with other people, too, because I think that's where something good comes out.

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You can put a dog in a scene and everyone's going to be better, I guarantee it. And if they're not better, just shoot the dog.

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That emphasis, from my parents, was always, "if you want something different from this" - they didn't say "better than this," because I'm not sure that they knew anything better, "then get an education. "

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