Anne Waldman Quotes

If it is something that I want to do, then I don't think the audience will hate it. Unless I turn into a megalomaniac and start thinking that Salman Khan can do anything.

It was 100 percent music. There was no ego involved, no attitudes, no black and white, it was pure music.

Geometry is moribund. I want a lilt and joy to art.

I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That's one of the things you learn not to know.

Their free verse was no form at all, yet it made history.

I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.

I've gotten to a place where I still love to play and sing, but I don't have any ego agenda left, outside of just wanting to stay in a creative place and play music. I much prefer to sing for somebody else, and to somebody else.

Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.

I think poetry, rather than suffering, is more and more sufficient to the needs of our society. It's one of the reasons so much of it is, for want of a better term, 'surreal.'

I wrote and recorded a song that I highly doubt I will release. The lyrics are somewhat risque. I may have to create an alter ego, and she can be the 'singer.'

I never had this ego where I must write everything. I'm not Bob Dylan.

I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.

Andy Brown is one of our most interesting and exciting younger poets. With its love of ideas and language, his work demonstrates that there need be no barriers in poetry; that the philosophical, the lyrical and the playful can be combined in work of assured and generous vision.

My own verse is usually free verse. The freer the better.

Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.

I love John Ashbery. He's the - really the poet laureate of English language poetry, whether he's given that or not, he is to me.

School and things that painters have taught me even keep me from painting as I want to. I decided I was a very stupid fool not to be at least paint as I wanted to and say what I wanted to when I painted as that seemed to be the only thing I could do that didn't concern anybody but myself. I found that I could say things with colour and shapes that I couldn't say in any other way things that I had no words for.

Writing is a kind of free fall that you then go back and edit and shape.

Modern poets add a lot of water to their ink.

The responsibility of the artist is to transcend the human ego.

In the ancients, one sees the accomplished letter of entire poetry: in the moderns, one has the presentiment of the spirit in becoming.

Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex.

All poetry is experimental poetry.

One hates an author that's all author.