Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes
Top 62 wise famous quotes and sayings by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Lawrence Ferlinghetti Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Poetry must be capable of answering the challenge of apocalytpic times, even if this means sounding apocaltypic.
I have dreamt that all my teeth fell out but my tongue lived to tell the tale
pg. 65// A Coney Island of the Mind
pg. 65// A Coney Island of the Mind
And I am waiting/ for Alice in Wonderland/ to retransmit to me/ her total dream of innocence
pg. 52// A Coney Island of the Mind
pg. 52// A Coney Island of the Mind
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.
And balancing on eye beams/ above a sea of faces/ paces his way/ to the other side of day
pg. 30// // A Coney Island of the Mind
pg. 30// // A Coney Island of the Mind
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.
I have seen giraffes in junglejims
their necks like love
wound around the iron circumstances
of the world.
their necks like love
wound around the iron circumstances
of the world.
To say one is revolutionary is a little like saying one is a Zen Buddhist - if you say you are, you probably aren't.
The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all 'bottom line' editors; everything depends on the money.
Our government is a bird with two right wings ... They're devoted to the perpetuation & spread of corporate capitalism.
And heard the green birds singing/ from the other side of silence
pg. 36// A Coney Island of the Mind
pg. 36// A Coney Island of the Mind
I see a similarity
between dogs and me.
Dogs are the true observers
walking up and down the world
thru the Molloy country.
between dogs and me.
Dogs are the true observers
walking up and down the world
thru the Molloy country.
I am going where turtles win
I am going
where conmen puke and die
Down the sad esplanades
of the official world.
I am going
where conmen puke and die
Down the sad esplanades
of the official world.
I have a feeling I'm falling on rare occasions but most of the time I have my feet on the ground I can't help it if the ground itself is falling.
We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.
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.
When you're young, everything seems like a romance. At 96, I can still feel romantic about publishing young unknown writers.
A lot of manuscripts that come in, you wonder by what outrageous fantasy the author believes that this should be pressed into print.