Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes

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• Invent a new language anyone can understand.
• A lot of manuscripts that come in, you wonder by what outrageous fantasy the author believes that this should be pressed into print.
• Poets, come out of your closets, Open your windows, open your doors, You have been holed up too long in your closed worlds... Poetry should…
• This is all very nice, because the ideas that Jack and the Beat generation stood for are needed today more than ever. But I'm not…
• The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a…
• I am waiting for the lost music to sound again in a new rebirth of wonder.
• I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope.
• I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.
• My country tears of thee.
• The state of the world calls out for poetry to save it.
• They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves.
• I'd ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a passing fad. It's got to go. It's…
• 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.
• We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.
• It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something.
• Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.
• If you're going to be a writer you should sit down and write in the morning, and keep it up all day, every day. Charles…
• The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind some people dying all the time or maybe only starving some…
• Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today.
• Well, I didn't know how to draw very well back then, in the '40s and '50s.

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