Anne Waldman Quotes

The world of immediate experience the world in which we find ourselves living must be comprehended, transformed, even subverted in order to become that which it really is.

I think what makes Narnia a magical place is that it offers escapism - escapism from a world that is so different from the reality known by the characters and the reality known by the fans.

The real world is harsh.

We're allowed to explore the world at large on these things; the urban-legend aspect of it is just kind of an excuse.

The human world is made of stories, not people.

He had gone beyond the world of metaphor and simile into the place of things that are, and it was changing him.

We are ever dying to one world and being born into another.

Fighting for survival in a shattered world... the truth is her only hope.

As a writer, I have always considered it my job to describe the world as I know it; to struggle toward whatever portion of the truth is available to me.

Beauty alters the grain of reality.

I'd like to find great stories from as many parts of the world as possible.

No reality transforms itself.

We can transform reality to the extent that we influence what happens in consciousness and thus free ourselves from the threats and blandishments of the outside world.

Sometimes it seems like you and me against the world.

The private experience that you perceive forms your world, period. But which world do you inhabit? For if you altered your private sensations of reality, then that world, seemingly the only one, would also change. You do go through transformations of beliefs all the time, and your perception of the world is different. You seem to be, no longer, the person you that you were. You are quite correct — you are not the person that you were, and your world has changed, and not just symbolically.

The truth is, the world isn't easy for any of us. It never has been and it never will be.

Nature, or the world, or reality, is what mythology is all about.

There's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in it. Change the story, change the world.

The myths and folk tales of the whole world make clear that the refusal is essentially a refusal to give up what one takes to be one's own interest. The future is regarded not in terms of an unremitting series of deaths and births, but as though one's present system of ideals, virtues, goals, and advantages were to be fixed and made secure.

There's a new reality born every minute. Unless one is a believer in predestination (in which case I'll call the prestidigitator), or other puppet-like restraints on our powers, one is free to imagine and effect changes on the world. And if enough people do it, there are big changes. These things happen. Anything can.

Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he knows nothing but what has passed under his own eyes.

At the heart of every legend there is a grain of truth.

I believe in freedom Freedom's apparently all I need But who's ever been free in this world? Who has never had to bleed in this world?

Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.

To change your reality, simply stop thinking like that.