"No, I didn't become disenchanted. I just couldn't……" — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"No, I didn't become disenchanted. I just couldn't paint like them."
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48 Quotes by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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- 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.
- 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.…
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