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
rivers sea flow
Spirit is Life. It flows thru the death of me endlessly like a river unafraid of becoming the sea.
east greenwich west
My background did not start with the East Side; it started with Greenwich Village, which is West Side.
cells learned thrown twelve
I was what? - twelve years old - and I was thrown in the cells with these people, so I learned fast.
chair close electric exist horrible name people today
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.
greenwich twenty wealthy
Now, twenty years old, I come out and I go back to Greenwich Village. Now, of course, I'm a wealthy man.
dug guy man pool scene
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.
american-poet knocked mountain moves named quite swear took
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.
fighting italian lucky
The lucky thing was that I was Italian; when the other Italians saw me fight back, they came to my defence.
window stealing restaurants
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.
easter new-york men
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.
people alright
I just trust people and they sense everything's gonna be alright.
mother father saws
My father went into the armed service and I never saw my mother - I don't know what happened to her.
judging crime menace
The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis.
grades sixth-grade highest
You see, I went to the sixth grade and that was the highest I ever went.