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Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes

Lawrence Ferlinghetti quotes

American Poet March 24, 1919

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Recipe For Happiness Khaborovsk Or Anyplace'One grand boulevard with treeswith one grand cafe in sunwith strong black coffee in very small cups.One not necessarily very beautifulman or woman who loves you.One fine day. Lawrence Ferlinghetti
[in the true mad north] of introspection, where 'falcons of the inner eye'dive and die, glimpsing in their dying fall, all life's memory of existence. Lawrence Ferlinghetti
It was a face which darkness could kill in an instant a face as easily hurt by laughter or light 'We think differently at night' she told me oncelying back languidly And she would quote Cocteau'I feel there is an angel in me' she'd say 'whom I am constantly shocking' Then she would smile and look away light a cigarette for me ... Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Lawrence Ferlinghetti quote: "I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope."
I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope. Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Lawrence Ferlinghetti quote: "We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by..."
We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings. 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. Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Pity the nation whose people are sheep, and whose shepherds mislead them. Pity the nation whose leaders are liars, whose sages are silenced, and whose bigots haunt the airwaves. Pity the nation that raises not its voice, except to praise conquerors and acclaim the bully as heroand aims to rule the world with force and by torture. Pity the nation that knows no other language but its ownand no other culture but its own. Pity the nation whose breath is moneyand sleeps the sleep of the too well... Lawrence Ferlinghetti
See it was like this when we waltz into this place. A couple of papish cats is doing an Aztec two-step. And I says Dad let's cutbut then this dame comes up behind me see and says you and me could really exist. Wow I says Only the next day she has bad teeth and really hates poetry. 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. Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Let us arise and go nowto the Isle of Manisfreeand live the true blue simple lifeof wisdom and wondermentwhere all things growstraight upaslant and singingin the yellow sunpoppies out of cowpodsthinking angels out of turds. I must arise and go nowto the Isle of Manisfreeway up behind the broken wordsand woods of Arcady. 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
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. Lawrence Ferlinghetti
And the Blue Angels are coming back to scare the local population. I remember seeing old Vietnamese women ducking under the benches in Washington Square; they thought they were back in the war. Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Lawrence Ferlinghetti quote: "Fuck Art, let's Dance!"
Fuck Art, let's Dance! Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Lawrence Ferlinghetti quote: "I am waiting for them to prove that God is really American."
I am waiting for them to prove that God is really American. Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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