I remember the people I knew ...

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

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My father went into the armed service and I never saw my mother - I don't know what happened to her.
 Gregory Corso
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
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
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
If you believe you're a poet, then you're saved.
 Gregory Corso