I once started out to walk around the world but ended up in Brooklyn, that Bridge was too much for me. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
I am waiting for the war to be fought which will make the world safe for anarchy — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind some people dying all the time or maybe… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
Poets, come out of your closets, Open your windows, open your doors, You have been holed up too long in your closed… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
In Goya's greatest scenes we seem to see the people of the world exactly at the moment when they first attained the… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
Western Civilization has been in a state of decline since the Edwardian age, say 1910. That was the height of Greco-Roman European… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
I certainly was surprised to be named Poet Laureate of this far-out city on the left side of the world, and I… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
Today America's on the wrong side of the world revolution. What I mean by that is, the world revolution is the people's… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
I arrived in San Francisco in January 1951. After the Second World War, the population was so uprooted. Soldiers came back home… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
Poetry can change the world, just like any art can change the world, by changing consciousness. Of course this was the great… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
“I am waiting for the meek to be blessed and inherit the earth... without taxes” — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share
We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share
I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share
I certainly was surprised to be named Poet Laureate of this far-out city on the left side of the world, and I gratefully accept,… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share
Paperbacks weren't considered real books in the book trade. Up till then it was just murder mysteries, potboilers, 25-cent pocket books sold in newsstands.… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share
The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all ottom line editors; everything depends on the money. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share
“Cast up the heart flops over gasping 'Love' a foolish fish which tries to draw its breath from flesh of air And no one… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share
The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share
Poetry can change the world, just like any art can change the world, by changing consciousness. Of course this was the great slogan of… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share
Almost every truly creative being alienated & expatriated in his own country — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share
The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of huge conglomerates. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share
The art has to make it on its own, without explanations, and it’s the same for poetry. If the poem or the painting has… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share
There is an ecstatic mechanism in birds that makes them fly upwards in spite of worms. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share
