Anne Waldman Quotes

Connection to Buddhism is strand in my life.

World War II synchronizes things for a lot of people. There's a kind of wakeup call.

Think of the road as a kind of zone and a site of incredible diversity.

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

For me there is a poesis, a poetics, around the trope of the road that is embedded within many life experiences of the people I've been close to.

I have students whose fathers are voting for Sarah Palin. It's wild.

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.

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.

I'm curious about other universes, and nonhuman elementals. For me it's still a very lively ethos. It's a kind of practice. It's an ethos that is very sustaining.