Gregory Corso: See if I can read the next one… Gregory Corso ( sitting in attendance in class): Equable!ĪG: “ To see a World in a Grain of Sand/And a Heaven in a Wild Flower/Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand/And Eternity in an hour” – That’s like that little two-line thing we had “When a cow eats in Kaishu, a horse’s belly bloats in Boston” there’s no place to stand onĭoes anybody know “ Auguries of Innocence”? How many here have read that? William Blake’s “Auguries of Innocence”? – and how many have not? – just raise your (hand). So any broken leg is an opening to sunyata, i.e. So (William) Blake has a series, like those two-line poems that we were doing, that verge on Vajrayana, that is to say, turning things inside out, taking accident and mishap and learning from it, alchemizing poison to nectar, or learning from experience, like, same thing, learning from experience, open to experience and learning from it (rather than resisting and solidifying and saying, “that’s bad-bad-bad”, and “that’s good-good-good”, experience).

AG: So, we were on the… I had read, “In order to trample on the Great Void/ The iron cow must sweat”, and also, “ Meeting, the two old friends laugh aloud/ In the grove the fallen leaves are many” – or “The path of the bird.” – “In the vast inane/ there is no back or front,/ the path of the bird annihilates East and West”

The cry of the hunted