Anne Waldman Quotes - Page 4

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

  Anne Waldman

  Numbness, Culture, Horror

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• 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.”

  Anne Waldman

  Waiting, Might, Firsts

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• If you can integrate your life to have a kind of meditative practice that is considering others.

  Anne Waldman

  Practice, Kind, Integrating

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• To conjure a particular knowledge you visualize an architectural structure and then you walk around and see the details that then bring back the words or the poetry or the lines of thought. Memory's going extinct because we rely on machines and copies and so on. The idea of working with structures that conjure dreams, personages, history, time, that can be contained in this way as you walk through your mind, is a challenge.

  Anne Waldman

  Dream, Memories, Ideas

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• America's the great conundrum and the great dream and the great fascination: the new land, the new world, the new temple, the new city, and the great mess. The most handguns, bombs, weaponry, violence, the cop of the world etcetera. All the contradictions. Mediocrity versus something like indigenous jazz, one of the most evolved sophisticated musical forms on the planet.

  Anne Waldman

  Dream, Land, Cities

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• I was raised with a sense of democratic vistas and egalitarianism.

  Anne Waldman

  Egalitarianism, Vistas, Democratic

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• Literal thousands of Americans taking to the road and getting into that green automobile and just going. At the same time there is real incredible work [of art] that comes out of it. Never forget that.

  Anne Waldman

  Art, Real, Green

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• I think for me in terms of this kind of dichotomy you have to hold the sense of negative capability in your mind - which is Keats line about being able to hold two different ideas 'without any irritable reach after fact or reason.'

  Anne Waldman

  Thinking, Ideas, Two

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• I invoke that sense of the particulars of that kind of literal travel and what that has meant historically in terms of diasporas, in terms of the migrations of immigrants coming to this [U.S.] country with a real vision of finding the promised land.

  Anne Waldman

  Country, Real, Land

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• 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.

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

  Anne Waldman

  Years, Saint, Projects

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

  Anne Waldman

  Thinking, Doors, Rich

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

  Anne Waldman

  Alive, Language, States

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• 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.

  Anne Waldman

  Christian, Father, Struggle

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• I don't demonize the downside. As we've seen in Egypt and Tahrir square and other recent event, the adhesiveness through [technology] kinds of communication is extraordinary. Interesting times we live in.

  Anne Waldman

  Communication, Technology, Squares

  Source: logosjournal.com

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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.

  Anne Waldman

  Real, Phones, Cells

  Source: logosjournal.com

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

  Anne Waldman

  Cutting, People, Upset

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• I think anything that gets people outside [is good] - I'm a big supporter of public parks and public spaces.

  Anne Waldman

  Thinking, Space, People

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• 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.

  Anne Waldman

  Earthquakes, Cities, America

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• How can you work on letting your thoughts go and getting synchronized into the moment and questioning your wild imagination. But I say just think of all the great Japanese and Chinese poets and scholars who were also meditators.

  Anne Waldman

  Thinking, Wild Imagination, Chinese

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• 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

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• I think Visions of Cody is the most radical book in terms of poetic stretch and the way Jack Kerouac is able to incorporate documentation and incorporate the live tape recording of Neal and so on.

  Anne Waldman

  Book, Thinking, Vision

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• The text for me is the musical score. I'm the instrument. My voice is the instrument. My voice is articulating the sounds which are coming through the imaginings and visitations in my head, and I'm making these sounds but I've selected them from an ocean of sound.

  Anne Waldman

  Ocean, Voice, Musical

  Source: www.poetspath.com

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• I did go to Vietnam in 2000 as a kind of pilgrimage and to feel my generation was very much a part of this. I felt responsible but also connected and empathetic. It was a very complicated relationship we had, whichever side you were on. The shock of being there was very few people my own age - I was primarily in the North in the streets of Hanoi. A whole generation was essentially decimated.

  Anne Waldman

  People, Age, Complicated Relationship

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• 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?".

  Anne Waldman

  Loyalty, People, Dying

  Source: logosjournal.com

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