All Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes
- Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can… Anyone
- We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn't have any money for lawyers. Any
- The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all 'bottom line' editors; everything depends on the money. All
- I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder Awaiting
- I feel there is an angel in me' she'd say 'whom I am constantly shocking Angel
- Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them. Distance
- Recipe For Happiness Khaborovsk Or Anyplace' One grand boulevard with trees with one grand cafe in sun with strong black coffee in very small cups.… Anyplace
- Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone. Eternal
- See it was like this when we waltz into this place. A couple of papish cats is doing an Aztec two-step And I says Dad… Aztec
- If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out. Brain
- I once started out to walk around the world but ended up in Brooklyn, that Bridge was too much for me. Bridge
- We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings. Best
- Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations. Cast
- Don't bow down to critics who have not themselves written great masterpieces. Bow
- I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away. Didn
- I am waiting for the war to be fought which will make the world safe for anarchy Anarchy
- [in the true mad north] of introspection, where 'falcons of the inner eye' dive and die, glimpsing in their dying fall, all life's memory of… All
- 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 to… Art
- And the Blue Angels are coming back to scare the local population. I remember seeing old Vietnamese women ducking under the benches in Washington Square;… Angels
- These are international criminals, and the spineless Democrats are doing nothing about it. Criminals
- I am waiting for them to prove that God is really American. American
- It's the story of an American who wants to become a dictator and goes to Europe with a sidekick to interview various Fascists to find… American
- No, I didn't become disenchanted. I just couldn't paint like them. Become Disenchanted