Gregory Corso quotes
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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 CorsoSource : Gregory Corso (1976). “Gasoline & Vestal Lady on Brattle: Pocket Poets Number 8”, p.105, City Lights Books
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“Standing on a street corner waiting for no one is power.”
-- Gregory CorsoSource : Gregory Corso, Bill Morgan (2003). “An Accidental Autobiography: The Selected Letters of Gregory Corso”, p.303, New Directions Publishing
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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 CorsoSource : Gregory Corso, “Writ On The Eve Of My 32nd Birthday”
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“I just trust people and they sense everything's gonna be alright.”
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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.”
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“The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis.”
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“But when the conquered spirit breaks free And indicates a new light Who'll take care of the cats?”
-- Gregory CorsoSource : Gregory Corso (1962). “Selected poems”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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 CorsoSource : Gregory Corso (1960). “The Happy Birthday of Death”, p.62, New Directions Publishing
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“Ah, if I were dictator I'd have poets throwing bombs!”
-- Gregory CorsoSource : Gregory Corso, Bill Morgan (2003). “An Accidental Autobiography: The Selected Letters of Gregory Corso”, p.5, New Directions Publishing
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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 CorsoSource : Gregory Corso, “Writ On The Steps Of Puerto Rican Harlem”
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“If you believe you're a poet, then you're saved.”
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“You see, I went to the sixth grade and that was the highest I ever went.”
-- Gregory Corso
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