Anne Waldman Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

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

  Anne Waldman

  Political, Language, Efficacy

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

• It's so rich as a trope - the whole idea of the road and it being in terms of language, being an active experience.

  Anne Waldman

  Ideas, Language, Rich

  "Interview with Anne Waldman: On All Kinds of Roads". Interview with Kurt Jacobsen, logosjournal.com. 2011.

• There is a pretty interesting document called 'action writing.' Which is not all about spontaneity and first thought, best thought,' but a certain kind of attention to the smallest increments of the phonemes of language, The kind of power of connection, what he is able to do with language.

  Anne Waldman

  Writing, Interesting, Connections

  Source: logosjournal.com

• Obviously, if I'm reading in Vienna or Venezuela or Italy, there's the issue of language, and I will make choices that are more sound oriented. Or I'll try to incorporate those languages and occasions somehow.

  Anne Waldman

  Reading, Issues, Choices

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

• The puzzle and conundrums of Emily Dickinson's poetry or The Cantos, by Ezra Pound, is infinitely pleasurable. Or Ronald Johnson's Ark. And the experience extends a whole lifetime. But the intensity of certain vocalized language affects our bodies in a particular way, and that further actualization propels me. The Greeks explored this; there were very particular meters used in making war, different ones for a love chant.

  Anne Waldman

  War, Greek, Ark

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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

  Anne Waldman

  Alive, Language, States

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

• In my teen years and early twenties I was really interested in this fellaheen worlds that, of course, Kerouac invokes and wanting to go below the border and wanting to get to these other places or interstices of the culture where you were encountering the realities of these other kinds of cultures, experiences, language, I think of jazz culture of course.

  Anne Waldman

  Reality, Thinking, Years

  Source: logosjournal.com

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