"If you're going to be a writer you……" — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"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 Bukowski, no matter how drunk he got the night before or no matter how hungover he was, the next morning he was at his typewriter. Every morning. Holidays, too. He'd have a bottle of whiskey with him to wake up with, and that's what he believed. That's the way you became a writer: by writing. When you weren't writing, you weren't a writer."
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48 Quotes by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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Invent a new language anyone can understand.
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Poets, come out of your closets, Open your windows, open your doors, You have been holed up too long in…
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This is all very nice, because the ideas that Jack and the Beat generation stood for are needed today more…
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The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort…
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I am waiting for the lost music to sound again in a new rebirth of wonder.
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I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope.
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I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.
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My country tears of thee.
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The state of the world calls out for poetry to save it.
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They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves.
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I'd ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a passing fad.…
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