Lawrence Ferlinghetti quotes

I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope. (Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone. View quote
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them. View quote
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately. View quote
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Southern California, where the American Dream came too true. View quote
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do. View quote
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Poetry is the shadow cast by our imaginations. View quote
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Don't bow down to critics who have not themselves written great masterpieces. View quote
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings. View quote
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. View quote
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace. (Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
I'd ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a passing fad. It's got to go. It's got to go a long way from here. View quote
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I didn't know that painters and writers retired. They're like soldiers – they just fade away. View quote
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I once started out to walk around the world but ended up in Brooklyn, that Bridge was too much for me. View quote
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I am waiting for the war to be fought which will make the world safe for anarchy. View quote
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something. View quote
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of huge conglomerates. View quote
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back. View quote
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem. View quote
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out. View quote
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I feel there is an angel in me' she'd say 'whom I am constantly shocking. (Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
I am waiting for the lost music to sound again in a new rebirth of wonder. View quote
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder. View quote
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The pennycandystore beyond the El is where I first fell in love with unreality. View quote
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
It was a face which darkness could kill in an instant. View quote
Lawrence Ferlinghetti