Best 29 quotes of Gregory Corso on MyQuotes

a fat Reichian wife screeching over potatoes Get a job! And five nose running brats in love with Batman

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

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.

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

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

I feel I want to be wise with white hair in a tall library in a deep chair by a fireplace.

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

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

I just trust people and they sense everything's gonna be alright.

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

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.

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

I think of New York City lost in stars forgotten as a blue haired pet of childhood love Tonight the night is full.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis.

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

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.

You see, I went to the sixth grade and that was the highest I ever went.

Dante’s step into Hell will never be forgotten by Hell.

Niagara Falls! Hordes of us! Husbands! Wives! Flowers! Chocolates! All streaming into cozy hotels All going to do the same thing tonight The indifferent clerk he knowing what was going to happen The lobby zombies they knowing what The whistling elevator man he knowing The winking bellboy knowing Everybody knowing! I'd be almost inclined not to do anything! Stay up all night! Stare that hotel clerk in the eye! Screaming: I deny honeymoon! I deny honeymoon! running rampant into those almost climatic suites yelling Radio belly! Cat shovel! O I'd live in Niagara forever! in a dark cave beneath the Falls I'd sit there the Mad Honeymooner devising ways to break marriages, a scourge of bigamy a saint of divorce--

Should I get married? Should I be good?

Surely I'd give it for a nipple a rubber Tacitus For a rattle bag of broken Bach records Tack Della Francesca all over its crib Sew the Greek alphabet on its bib And build for its playpen a roofless Parthenon