Anne Waldman Quotes

Ezra Pound was a crackpot on social and political issues, but he knew what he was talking about in matters of the written language.

I'm sure I've been influenced by every fine writer I've ever read, from Dickens and Austen to Auden and Jane Hirshfield. And also, the short stories of Updike, Cheever, Munro, Alice Adams, and Doris Lessing. And the plays of Oscar Wilde. And paintings by Alice Neel and Matisse.

I was an English major in college!

I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.

For me, poetry was... the fastest way to express what I was feeling, what I was going through.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture.

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world.

I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.

Listen, here's the thing about an English degree - if you sat somebody down and asked them to make a list of the writers they admire over the last hundred years, see how many of them got a degree in English.

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.

I was really drawn to spoken-word style poetry. I loved the rhythms, and for some reason, I was just drawn to this poetry as a way of expressing my feelings, because I didn't have any other outlet.

I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.

There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends.

I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.

Poe's saying that a long poem is a sequence of short ones is perfectly just.

Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.

I majored in English with a specialization in creative writing along with Asian American Studies.

I was taught Shakespeare brilliantly by an eccentric genius at Harrow named Jeremy Lemmon who made me want to be a writer.

My first love is literature.

At the age of seventeen, I left school. I went to university, and I wrote my first attempts at poetry in a room in a flat at the edge of the city.

I love to write. English is my favorite subject in school.

Viereck became a historian, specializing in modern Russia, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet.

I did study with Anne Carson briefly in Michigan. She taught there, and that's where I first encountered her, in her class.