Anne Waldman Quotes

I know when I go to a poetry reading, I feel purged, exulted. You let the poet guide you through some kind of journey.

Anne Waldman

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• Poetry
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• I wasn't really comfortable reading until I was 12.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Reading
  • Comfortable
  • Until

• I haven't found it to be particularly enjoyable... ninety percent of the time when I go on dates, I'm thinking, 'I could be reading my book instead.'

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Book

• Twitter, Facebook are so different from where I began. It's like a fire that takes off... I'm reading everybody's Twitter.

  

  Randee Heller
  • Different
  • Reading
  • Fire

• What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Children
  • Love
  • Reading

• We had a few non-fiction books at home, but my dad was of the opinion that fiction was a complete and utter waste of time because it wasn't real - so what was the point of reading it?

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Time
  • Real
  • Home

• I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Time
  • Think
  • Reading

• Historical fiction is actually good preparation for reading SF. Both the historical novelist and the science fiction writer are writing about worlds unlike our own.

  

  Pamela Sargent
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Science

• I don't read horror, ever. When I was 15, I made the mistake of reading part of 'The Exorcist.' It was the first and last horror book I've ever opened.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Mistake

• When you're first reading the script and thinking about playing the part, it's slightly daunting. It's easy to question, 'Is an audience going to like me? And is that my job?'

  

  Laura Dern
  • Thinking
  • Job
  • Reading

• A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.

  

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  • Poetry
  • Poet
  • Anything

• Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Education
  • Reading
  • Worth

• Back when I was growing up, getting caught with a copy of 'Creepy,' 'Eerie' or 'Vampirella' was almost as bad as your parents finding out you were reading 'Playboy.'

  

  Nancy A. Collins
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Parents

• I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Poetry
  • Beauty
  • Themes

• Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • Beautiful
  • Peace
  • Poetry

• Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Song
  • Journey
  • End

• Serving in Congress has been more than an honor; it has been one of the most exhilarating experiences of my life... It has been a wonderful ride. It has been a wonderful journey.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Life
  • Journey
  • Honor

• The Junction Point journey is over. To all those who've asked, or want to ask, I'm sad but excited for the future.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Future
  • Journey
  • Sad

• Book sales and teens reading is always a fantastic thing, but we should also be celebrating and consuming the huge wealth of U.K. and U.K.-based writing and illustrating talent. Authors such as Charlie Higson, Darren Shan, Holly Smale, Tanya Byrne, Catherine Johnson, Sophie Mckenzie, to name but a few.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Reading

• It seems to be expected of every pilgrim up the slopes of the mathematical Parnassus, that he will at some point or other of his journey sit down and invent a definite integral or two towards the increase of the common stock.

  

  James Joseph Sylvester
  • Up
  • Journey
  • Stock

• In a way I spend my entire life stealing from everything - from the past, from cities I love, from where I grew up - grabbing things, taking not only from architecture but from Italy, art, writing, poetry, music.

  

  Renzo Piano
  • Writing
  • Poetry
  • Stealing

• Our point of view on this question of the function of art is the same in all cases: there's no more an art of the insane than there is an art of dyspeptic people or the art of people with knee problems.

  

  Jean Dubuffet
  • People
  • Art
  • Question

• The master of your body did not run off and leave you masterless.

  

  B. J. Palmer
  • Running
  • Body
  • Masters

• If history judges society for how it treats those in need, so markets judge economies by the incentives they provide for private investment, the infrastructure that supports growth, and the burdens placed on job creation.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Job
  • History
  • Society

• I know when I go to a poetry reading, I feel purged, exulted. You let the poet guide you through some kind of journey.

  

  Anne Waldman
  • Reading
  • Poetry
  • Journey