Gregory Corso famous quotes

04-17-2025

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 #Book #Beer
Standing on a street corner waiting for no one is power.
-- Gregory Corso

#Power #Waiting #Streets
The lucky thing was that I was Italian; when the other Italians saw me fight back, they came to my defence.
-- Gregory Corso

#Fighting #Italian #Lucky
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

#Moving #Fall #Long
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.
-- Gregory Corso

#Easter #New York #Men
I feel I want to be wise with white hair in a tall library in a deep chair by a fireplace.
-- Gregory Corso

#Wise #Hair #White
I just trust people and they sense everything's gonna be alright.
-- Gregory Corso

#People #Alright
My father went into the armed service and I never saw my mother - I don't know what happened to her.
-- Gregory Corso

#Mother #Father #Saws
The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis.
-- Gregory Corso

#Judging #Crime #Said
But when the conquered spirit breaks free And indicates a new light Who'll take care of the cats?
-- Gregory Corso

#Cat #Light #Perspective
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

#Father #War #Home
I remember the people I knew in prison; I was very fortunate to know them - they came from 1910, 1920, 1930.
-- Gregory Corso

#People #Remember #Prison
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.
-- Gregory Corso

#Window #Stealing #Coming Out
I think of New York City lost in stars forgotten as a blue haired pet of childhood love Tonight the night is full;
-- Gregory Corso

#New York #Stars #Night
Ah, if I were dictator I'd have poets throwing bombs!
-- Gregory Corso

#Bombs #Dictator #Poet
I learned life were no dream I learned truth deceived Man is not God Life is a century Death an instant
-- Gregory Corso

#Dream #Men #Life Is
If you believe you're a poet, then you're saved.
-- Gregory Corso

#Believe #Poet #If You Believe
You see, I went to the sixth grade and that was the highest I ever went.
-- Gregory Corso

#Sixth Grade #Grades

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