a fat Reichian wife screeching over potatoes Get a job! Gregory Corso More Quotes by Gregory Corso More Quotes From Gregory Corso 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 Corso dream beer book Standing on a street corner waiting for no one is power. Gregory Corso poetry power waiting Spirit is Life. It flows thru the death of me endlessly like a river unafraid of becoming the sea. Gregory Corso flow sea rivers If you have a choice of two things and can't decide, take both. Gregory Corso two-things choices two 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. Gregory Corso long-ago fall moving If you believe you're a poet, then you're saved. Gregory Corso saved poet believe The fall of man stands a lie before Beethoven, a truth before Hitler. Gregory Corso men lying fall Ah, if I were dictator I'd have poets throwing bombs! Gregory Corso dictator bombs poet I feel I want to be wise with white hair in a tall library in a deep chair by a fireplace. Gregory Corso wise white hair But when the conquered spirit breaks free And indicates a new light Who'll take care of the cats? Gregory Corso perspective cat light it's just that I see love as odd as wearing shoes-- Gregory Corso girl mother love I remember the people I knew in prison; I was very fortunate to know them - they came from 1910, 1920, 1930. Gregory Corso prison remember people I think of New York City lost in stars Gregory Corso stars new-york night O how terrible it must be for a young man-- Gregory Corso tea men thinking The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis. Gregory Corso crime judging said You see, I went to the sixth grade and that was the highest I ever went. Gregory Corso sixth-grade grades highest 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. Gregory Corso home war father I learned life were no dream I learned truth deceived Man is not God Life is a century Death an instant Gregory Corso life-is dream men The lucky thing was that I was Italian; when the other Italians saw me fight back, they came to my defence. Gregory Corso italian lucky fighting I feel capitol punishment is dooming U.S.A. Gregory Corso capitol punishment feels
