"The art has to make it on its……" — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"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 be explained, then it’s a failure in communication."
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48 Quotes by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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Invent a new language anyone can understand.
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A lot of manuscripts that come in, you wonder by what outrageous fantasy the author believes that this should be…
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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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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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