Gregory Corso
Gregory Corso
Gregory Nunzio Corsowas an American poet, youngest of the inner circle of Beat Generation writers...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth26 March 1930
CountryUnited States of America
men thinking tea
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
wise white-hair age
I feel I want to be wise with white hair in a tall library in a deep chair by a fireplace.
cat light perspective
But when the conquered spirit breaks free And indicates a new light Who'll take care of the cats?
war father home
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.
dream men life-is
I learned life were no dream I learned truth deceived Man is not God Life is a century Death an instant
new-york stars night
I think of New York City lost in stars forgotten as a blue haired pet of childhood love Tonight the night is full;
people remember prison
I remember the people I knew in prison; I was very fortunate to know them - they came from 1910, 1920, 1930.
love girl mother
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
lying fall men
The fall of man stands a lie before Beethoven, a truth before Hitler.
rivers sea flow
Spirit is Life. It flows thru the death of me endlessly like a river unafraid of becoming the sea.
bombs dictator poet
Ah, if I were dictator I'd have poets throwing bombs!
moving fall long-ago
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.
believe poet saved
If you believe you're a poet, then you're saved.
I feel capitol punishment is dooming U.S.A.