Quotes by Gregory Corso - Page 1

I feel capitol punishment is dooming U.S.A.
Gregory Corso / Poet
Capitol
Feels
Punishment
Copy Quote
If you believe you're a poet, then you're saved.
Gregory Corso / Poet
Believe
Poet
Saved
Copy Quote
Ah, if I were dictator I'd have poets throwing bombs!
Gregory Corso / Poet
Bombs
Dictator
Poet
Copy Quote
Standing on a street corner waiting for no one is power.
Gregory Corso / Poet
Power
Poetry
Waiting
Copy Quote
If you have a choice of two things and can't decide, take both.
Gregory Corso / Poet
Choices
Two
Two Things
Copy Quote
I just trust people and they sense everything's gonna be alright.
Gregory Corso / Poet
Alright
People
Copy Quote
The fall of man stands a lie before Beethoven, a truth before Hitler.
Gregory Corso / Poet
Men
Fall
Lying
Copy Quote
You see, I went to the sixth grade and that was the highest I ever went.
Gregory Corso / Poet
Grades
Highest
Sixth Grade
Sixth
Grade
Copy Quote
The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis.
Gregory Corso / Poet
Crime
Judging
Menace
Said
Judge
Basis
Scientific
Copy Quote
I feel I want to be wise with white hair in a tall library in a deep chair by a fireplace.
Gregory Corso / Poet
Wise
Hair
White
Copy Quote
But when the conquered spirit breaks free And indicates a new light Who'll take care of the cats?
Gregory Corso / Poet
Cat
Light
Perspective
Copy Quote
Spirit is Life. It flows thru the death of me endlessly like a river unafraid of becoming the sea.
Gregory Corso / Poet
Flow
Rivers
Sea
Copy Quote
I was what? - twelve years old - and I was thrown in the cells with these people, so I learned fast.
Gregory Corso / Poet
Cells
Thrown
Twelve
Copy Quote
My father went into the armed service and I never saw my mother - I don't know what happened to her.
Gregory Corso / Poet
Father
Mother
Saws
Armed
Copy Quote
My background did not start with the East Side; it started with Greenwich Village, which is West Side.
Gregory Corso / Poet
East
East Side
Greenwich
Greenwich Village
Village
West Side
Background
Copy Quote
I learned life were no dream I learned truth deceived Man is not God Life is a century Death an instant
Gregory Corso / Poet
Dream
Men
Life Is
Copy Quote
a fat Reichian wife screeching over potatoes Get a job! And five nose running brats in love with Batman
Gregory Corso / Poet
Jobs
Running
Wife
Copy Quote
Now, twenty years old, I come out and I go back to Greenwich Village. Now, of course, I'm a wealthy man.
Gregory Corso / Poet
Greenwich
Greenwich Village
Village
Twenty
Copy Quote
The lucky thing was that I was Italian; when the other Italians saw me fight back, they came to my defence.
Gregory Corso / Poet
Defence
Fighting
Italian
Lucky
Fight
Saw
Italians
Copy Quote
I remember the people I knew in prison; I was very fortunate to know them - they came from 1910, 1920, 1930.
Gregory Corso / Poet
Fortunate
People
Prison
Remember
Copy Quote
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 / Poet
New York
Night
Stars
Copy Quote
it's just that I see love as odd as wearing shoes-- I never wanted to marry a girl who was like my mother And Ingrid Bergman was always impossible
Gregory Corso / Poet
Girl
Love
Mother
Copy Quote
Now the Tombs, like the name says, are so horrible that they had to close it down. Today it doesn't exist and people go in the electric chair and all that.
Gregory Corso / Poet
Electric
Horrible
Tombs
Chair
Close
Exist
Says
Copy Quote
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 / Poet
Dream
Beer
Book
Copy Quote
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 / Poet
New York
Easter
Men
Adopted
East
East Side
Eight
Moved
New York City
Ten
Man City New
Foster
Till
Ten Years
Copy Quote
The other guy I dug a lot was Burroughs because he was a smart man already; he learned it through the druggie pool - the street scene of an old aristocratic kind of man.
Gregory Corso / Poet
Aristocratic
Pool
Scene
Smart
Smart Man
Dug
Copy Quote
O how terrible it must be for a young man-- seated before a family and the family thinking We never saw him before! He wants our Mary Lou! After tea and homemade cookies they ask What do you do for a living
Gregory Corso / Poet
Men
Tea
Thinking
Copy Quote
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 / Poet
Caught
Coming Out
Stealing
Streets
Window
Good Food Restaurant
Anyway
Grabbed
Pretty Good
Restaurant
Copy Quote
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 / Poet
Fall
Mountain
Swear
Quite
Named
Always Long Me
Itself
Took
Copy Quote
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 / Poet
Fall
Long Ago
Moving
Copy Quote
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 / Poet
Home
War
Father
Greenwich
Greenwich Village
Navy
Orphanage
Streets
Village
War Home World
Anyway
World War
Copy Quote

Related Poet Authors

William Blake
Poet
Monday, Nov 28, 1757
Sunday, Aug 12, 1827
Walt Whitman
Poet
Monday, May 31, 1819
Saturday, Mar 26, 1892
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Poet
Wednesday, Oct 21, 1772
Friday, Jul 25, 1834
Robert Frost
Poet
Thursday, Mar 26, 1874
Tuesday, Jan 29, 1963
Zoketsu Norman Fischer
Poet
Zoe Whittall
Poet
Monday, Feb 16, 1976
Zbigniew Herbert
Poet
Wednesday, Oct 29, 1924
Tuesday, Jul 28, 1998
Yvor Winters
Poet
Wednesday, Oct 17, 1900
Thursday, Jan 25, 1968
Yvonne Zipter
Poet
Yusef Komunyakaa
Poet
Tuesday, Apr 29, 1947
Yunus Emre
Poet
Yosa Buson
Poet

Thursday, Dec 25, 1783
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Poet
Monday, Jul 18, 1932
Saturday, Apr 01, 2017
Yevgeny Baratynsky
Poet
Sunday, Mar 02, 1800
Thursday, Jul 11, 1844
Yehuda Amichai
Poet
Saturday, May 03, 1924
Friday, Sep 22, 2000

View All Poet Quotes

Top Authors

John Muir
Author
Saturday, Apr 21, 1838
Thursday, Dec 24, 1914
Dwight D. Eisenhower
34Th U.s. President
Tuesday, Oct 14, 1890
Friday, Mar 28, 1969
Carrie Fisher
Actress
Sunday, Oct 21, 1956
Tuesday, Dec 27, 2016
Billy Graham
Professional Wrestler
Monday, Jun 07, 1943
Dolly Parton
Singer-Songwriter
Saturday, Jan 19, 1946
Steven Wright
Comedian
Tuesday, Dec 06, 1955
Sun Tzu
Strategist
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
Khalil Gibran
Poet
Saturday, Jan 06, 1883
Friday, Apr 10, 1931
Thomas Sowell
Economist
Monday, Jun 30, 1930
Benjamin Franklin
Founding Father Of The United States
Sunday, Jan 17, 1706
Saturday, Apr 17, 1790
Muhammad Ali
Professional Boxer
Saturday, Jan 17, 1942
Friday, Jun 03, 2016
John Locke
Philosopher
Sunday, Aug 29, 1632
Tuesday, Oct 28, 1704
Jean De La Bruyere
Wednesday, Aug 16, 1645
Thursday, May 10, 1696
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Poet
Saturday, Aug 05, 1809
Thursday, Oct 06, 1892
Barack Obama
44Th U.s. President
Friday, Aug 04, 1961

View All Authors

Gregory Corso Quotes - Page 1

Picture Quotes Maker

Related Poet Authors

Popular Topic Tags

Top Authors

Share This Page

Stay Connected

Picture Quotes Maker

Related Poet Authors

Popular Topic Tags

Top Authors

Share This Page