I have a feeling I'm falling on rare occasions but most of the time I have my feet on the ground I… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
To say one is revolutionary is a little like saying one is a Zen Buddhist - if you say you are, you… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
Poetry must be capable of answering the challenge of apocalytpic times, even if this means sounding apocaltypic. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
You can publish a poem you think is a very important poem, and you don't hear a word from anyone. [...] You… — 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
If you're going to be a writer you should sit down and write in the morning, and keep it up all day,… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
If you would be a poet, write living newspapers. Be a reporter from outer space, filing dispatches to some supreme managing editor… — 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
We'd like to just write nothing but lyric poetry. The trouble is, the individual is going along intent on his own personal… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
“I am waiting for the meek to be blessed and inherit the earth... without taxes” — 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 populace. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away. — 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 gratefully accept,… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Almost every truly creative being alienated & expatriated in his own country — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
