"We have seen the best minds of our……" — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings."
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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48 Quotes by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Lawrence Ferlinghetti has 48 quotes on this site.
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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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