"My country tears of thee." — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

"My country tears of thee."

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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48 Quotes by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Lawrence Ferlinghetti has 48 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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…
Poets, come out of your closets, Open your windows, open your doors, You have been holed up too long in…
This is all very nice, because the ideas that Jack and the Beat generation stood for are needed today more…
The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort…
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.
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.…
The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all…

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I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just… — Paul Auster
What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And… — Billie Joe Armstrong
My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear… — Desi Arnaz
When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price. — Arthur Ashe
Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he… — Bashar al-Assad
Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and… — Bashar al-Assad
There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful… — Chinua Achebe
God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich. — Wystan Hugh Auden
You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as… — Wystan Hugh Auden
A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks… — Wystan Hugh Auden
It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself… — Wystan Hugh Auden
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do… — John James Audubon

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