Anne Waldman Quotes About Fathers

Quotes about: Fathers

• I had a student some years ago whose father had worked on the Manhattan Project. I had a student who had to escape this very intense, born-again fundamentalist Christian background that was very much like a cult and of course they struggle to get to Naropa. And they have cut themselves off. They don't look back.

  Anne Waldman

  Christian, Father, Struggle

  Source: logosjournal.com

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

  Anne Waldman

  Father, Voting, Students

  Source: logosjournal.com

• My father shared the ethos of many of the beat writers and was a friend of Allen Ginsberg. Probably for 25 years of my father's life, He had been an itinerant piano player and so traveled the road with bands and that sort of thing.

  Anne Waldman

  Father, Player, Ethos

  "Interview with Anne Waldman: On All Kinds of Roads". Interview with Kurt Jacobsen, logosjournal.com. 2011.

• My mother actually left American in 1929 to be part of an alternative community of bohemians around her then father-in-law who was a well-known Greek poet. This group of people were living in this semi-Luddite reality and weaving their own clothes - proto-hippies in a way- -but around an artistic vision.

  Anne Waldman

  Mother, Father, Hippie

  "Interview with Anne Waldman: On All Kinds of Roads". Interview with Kurt Jacobsen, logosjournal.com. 2011.

• I think of my father growing up in South Jersey, the son of second-generation German immigrant glassblowers. The opportunities for him of feeling that aspiration, that yearning, get out of the small town, connect to a larger world, get yourself to New York, wanting to play the piano at every opportunity, bonding with people who were on a similar path, ending up in Provincetown, which was kind of nexus for nonconformity, and artistic dropout reality.

  Anne Waldman

  New York, Growing Up, Father

  Source: logosjournal.com

• A lot of my father's generation were thinking about communism and had deep liberal and progressive connections. He never admitted whether he was a card-carrying communist party member but I think its possible.

  Anne Waldman

  Father, Party, Thinking

  Source: logosjournal.com

• My father was a frustrated writer. I think he wanted to write the great American novel.

  Anne Waldman

  Father, Writing, Thinking

  Source: logosjournal.com

• I think of my father born in this very small, limited situation and then coming out of that. Many people have this story.

  Anne Waldman

  Father, Thinking, People

  Source: logosjournal.com

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