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As a younger person you can come in through many, many gateways. It's like some huge Mandela. You can enter into this and get refreshed.
Anne Waldman
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Anne Waldman
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 2
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When I got back to NY had the opportunity to work with the beginning years of the poetry project which was founded with money from the OEO under Lyndon Johnson to work with alienated youth on the lower East side. This was extraordinary, to be able to help then to create a culture that would capture the energy that I felt at Berkley.
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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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The whole red state/blue state thing is very interesting. Watching that shift over the years.
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If you can integrate your life to have a kind of meditative practice that is considering others.
Anne Waldman
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I took my vow to poetry this is where I'm going to be. These are my people this is my tribe. This is where I'm going to put my energy.
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When I look at my life there are these streams, these things that have continuity from the fifties to now.
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My mother started taking us to church when I was in seventh or eight grade. That was always a question, Do you believe in God?
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I'm drawn to the magical efficacies of language as a political act.
Anne Waldman
I am a self-appointed ambassador for poetry.
Anne Waldman
We need a world-wide Department of Peace.
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Your compassion travels beyond your own inner circle. And then you breathe out an alternative version where you mentally and emotionally and psychologically purify the poisons. So indeed, the generative idea is in the crux of this practice and of my propensity toward poetry, which is a practice of the imagination.
Anne Waldman
Poets have to keep pushing, pushing, against the darkness, and write their way out of it as well.
Anne Waldman
My last bedside conversation in the hospital just a few weeks before Allen Ginsberg died was 'please take care of so and so. And the legacy of the Kerouac school.
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Contemporary movies just drive me crazy. The violence and the sentimentality and the spiritual materialism and Theism and the incredible indulgence in ignorance is so claustrophobic.
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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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