Gregory Corso quotes:

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 background did not start with the East Side; it started with Greenwich Village, which is West Side.

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 think of New York City lost in starsforgotten as a blue haired pet of childhood love Tonight the night is full;

Now, twenty years old, I come out and I go back to Greenwich Village. Now, of course, I'm a wealthy man.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.