Anne Waldman Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Poets have to keep pushing, pushing, against the darkness, and write their way out of it as well.

  Anne Waldman

  Writing, Darkness, Way

  "Push, Push Against the Darkness: An Interview with Anne Waldman on The Iovis Trilogy". Interview with Jim Cohn, www.raintaxi.com. 2012.

• Various random experiments, cut-ups, fold-ins, juxtapositions, timed writings of other kinds, the "objects assignment" which involves dream, adventure, ancestry. Writing outside, writing on moving vehicles. Looking at paintings in the grand museums of the world in a proscribed way.Little strategies to keep the lalita - play or dance - going. Sometimes it's lonely you know, just you and your own imagination.

  Anne Waldman

  Dream, Lonely, Moving

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

• One has to be cautious and respectful of the power of the "substance" guides. I don't advocate imbibing the "little saint children," as Maria Sabina calls the magic mushrooms, or anything else for everyone. I find that certain substances reconnect me to a primal context of purpose that goes beyond identity and ownership. The writing-when I've worked it this way-is the kind of information you take back from dreams. Or it's hypnotic writing rather than getting off on some sort of pleasure trip or intellectual trip.

  Anne Waldman

  Dream, Children, Writing

  Source: www.raintaxi.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

• There is a pretty interesting document called 'action writing.' Which is not all about spontaneity and first thought, best thought,' but a certain kind of attention to the smallest increments of the phonemes of language, The kind of power of connection, what he is able to do with language.

  Anne Waldman

  Writing, Interesting, Connections

  Source: logosjournal.com

• No one begs you to be a poet or write a 1000-page poem. You have to be fueled by a drive, a conviction - a need, a necessity, a vision that is so pressing that it has no other outlet but through you. That doesn't mean that you are unconscious or in trance, but there can be moments like that.

  Anne Waldman

  Writing, Mean, Vision

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

• Personally there is first: imagination; second: the act of writing - and third: the act/act of vocalizing.

  Anne Waldman

  Writing, Imagination, Firsts

  "Push, Push Against The Darkness: An Interview With Anne Waldman On The Iovis Trilogy". Interview with Jim Cohn, www.raintaxi.com. 2012.

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