Gregory Corso Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.