Gregory Corso Quotes

• Standing on a street corner waiting for no one is power.

  Gregory Corso

  Power, Poetry, Waiting

  Gregory Corso, Bill Morgan (2003). “An Accidental Autobiography: The Selected Letters of Gregory Corso”, p.303, New Directions Publishing

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• It is a great feeling to know that from a window I can go to books to cans of beer to past loves. And from these gather enough dream to sneak out a back door.

  Gregory Corso

  Dream, Book, Beer

  Gregory Corso (1976). “Gasoline & Vestal Lady on Brattle: Pocket Poets Number 8”, p.105, City Lights Books

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• Spirit is Life. It flows thru the death of me endlessly like a river unafraid of becoming the sea.

  Gregory Corso

  Sea, Rivers, Flow

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• If you have a choice of two things and can't decide, take both.

  Gregory Corso

  Two, Choices, Two Things

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• If you believe you're a poet, then you're saved.

  Gregory Corso

  Believe, Poet, Saved

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• Ah, if I were dictator I'd have poets throwing bombs!

  Gregory Corso

  Bombs, Dictator, Poet

  Gregory Corso, Bill Morgan (2003). “An Accidental Autobiography: The Selected Letters of Gregory Corso”, p.5, New Directions Publishing

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• But when the conquered spirit breaks free And indicates a new light Who'll take care of the cats?

  Gregory Corso

  Cat, Light, Perspective

  Gregory Corso (1962). “Selected poems”

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• They, that unnamed they, they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up -- and I swear when I went down quite often I took the fall; nothing moves a mountain but itself. They, I've long ago named them me.

  Gregory Corso

  Moving, Fall, Long Ago

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• The fall of man stands a lie before Beethoven, a truth before Hitler.

  Gregory Corso

  Lying, Fall, Men

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• I learned life were no dream I learned truth deceived Man is not God Life is a century Death an instant

  Gregory Corso

  Dream, Men, Life Is

  Gregory Corso, “Writ On The Steps Of Puerto Rican Harlem”

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• I feel I want to be wise with white hair in a tall library in a deep chair by a fireplace.

  Gregory Corso

  Wise, Hair, White

  Gregory Corso, “Writ On The Eve Of My 32nd Birthday”

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• I think of New York City lost in stars
  forgotten as a blue haired pet of childhood love Tonight the night is full.

  Gregory Corso

  New York, Stars, Night

  Gregory Corso (1960). “The Happy Birthday of Death”, p.62, New Directions Publishing

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• it's just that I see love as odd as wearing shoes--
  I never wanted to marry a girl who was like my mother
  And Ingrid Bergman was always impossible

  Gregory Corso

  Love, Girl, Mother

  "Marriage" l. 100 (1960)

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• The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis.

  Gregory Corso

  Judging, Crime, Said

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• The lucky thing was that I was Italian; when the other Italians saw me fight back, they came to my defence.

  Gregory Corso

  Fighting, Italian, Lucky

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• I just trust people and they sense everything's gonna be alright.

  Gregory Corso

  People, Alright

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• You see, I went to the sixth grade and that was the highest I ever went.

  Gregory Corso

  Sixth Grade, Grades, Highest

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• I remember the people I knew in prison; I was very fortunate to know them - they came from 1910, 1920, 1930.

  Gregory Corso

  People, Remember, Prison

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• My father took me back home, back to Greenwich Village, and he thought by taking me out of the orphanage he'd be out of the World War too. But no way - they got him anyway. He went in the Navy and then I lived on the streets.

  Gregory Corso

  Father, War, Home

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• a fat Reichian wife screeching over potatoes Get a job!
  And five nose running brats in love with Batman

  Gregory Corso

  Running, Jobs, Wife

  Gregory Corso (1960). “The Happy Birthday of Death”, p.31, New Directions Publishing

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• O how terrible it must be for a young man--
  seated before a family and the family thinking
  We never saw him before! He wants our Mary Lou!
  After tea and homemade cookies they ask What do you do for a living

  Gregory Corso

  Thinking, Men, Tea

  Gregory Corso (1960). “The Happy Birthday of Death”, p.29, New Directions Publishing

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• I feel capitol punishment is dooming U.S.A.

  Gregory Corso

  Punishment, Feels, Capitol

  Source: realitystudio.org

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• Anyway, I lived on the streets and did pretty good until I got caught stealing, what was it? I kicked in a restaurant window, went in and took all the food that I wanted, and while coming out I was grabbed.

  Gregory Corso

  Window, Stealing, Coming Out

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• My father went into the armed service and I never saw my mother - I don't know what happened to her.

  Gregory Corso

  Mother, Father, Saws

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• I moved up over Lower East Side and I was adopted by eight foster parents; I lived all over New York City with these parents, man, till I was about ten years old.

  Gregory Corso

  Easter, New York, Men

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