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Lawrence Ferlinghetti quotes: 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 quotes: We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn't have any money for lawyers. We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn't have any money for lawyers.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti quotes: Blink at the sunned scratchand stumble into silencepg. 55// A Coney Island of the Mind Blink at the sunned scratch
and stumble into silence
pg. 55// A Coney Island of the Mind
Lawrence Ferlinghetti quotes: Invent a new language anyone can understand. Invent a new language anyone can understand.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti quotes: It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something. It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti quotes: Poetry must be capable of answering the challenge of apocalytpic times, even if this means sounding apocaltypic. Poetry must be capable of answering the challenge of apocalytpic times, even if this means sounding apocaltypic.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti quotes: Her eyes downcast all the while/ and singing to herself pg. 18// A Coney Island of the Mind Her eyes downcast all the while/ and singing to herself
pg. 18// A Coney Island of the Mind
Lawrence Ferlinghetti quotes: 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 quotes: I have dreamt that all my teeth fell out but my tongue lived to tell the talepg. 65// A Coney Island of the Mind 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
Lawrence Ferlinghetti quotes: And I am waiting/ for Alice in Wonderland/ to retransmit to me/ her total dream of innocencepg. 52// 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
Lawrence Ferlinghetti quotes: Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today. Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti quotes: Southern California, where the American Dream came too true. Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti quotes: Watching the world walk by in its curious shoespg. 61// A Coney Island of the Mind Watching the world walk by
in its curious shoes
pg. 61// A Coney Island of the Mind
Lawrence Ferlinghetti quotes: They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves. They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti quotes: Think long thoughts in short sentences. Think long thoughts in short sentences.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti quotes: Make your mind learn its way around the heart. Make your mind learn its way around the heart.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti quotes: We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings. We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti quotes: 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. 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.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti quotes: As I get older I perceive Life has its tail in its mouth. As I get older I perceive Life has its tail in its mouth.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti quotes: 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 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
Lawrence Ferlinghetti quotes: Poetry is the shortest distance between two humans. Poetry is the shortest distance between two humans.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti quotes: I am waitingfor the meek to be blessedand inherit the earth ... without taxes I am waiting
for the meek to be blessed
and inherit the earth ...
without taxes
Lawrence Ferlinghetti quotes: I am waiting for the lost music to sound again in a new rebirth of wonder. I am waiting for the lost music to sound again in a new rebirth of wonder.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti quotes: These are international criminals, and the spineless Democrats are doing nothing about it. These are international criminals, and the spineless Democrats are doing nothing about it.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti quotes: 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. 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 quotes: My country tears of thee. My country tears of thee.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti quotes: I flew too near the sun and my wax wings fell offpg. 62// A Coney Island of the Mind I flew too near the sun
and my wax wings fell off
pg. 62// A Coney Island of the Mind
Lawrence Ferlinghetti quotes: I have seen giraffes in junglejimstheir necks like lovewound around the iron circumstances of the world. I have seen giraffes in junglejims
their necks like love
wound around the iron circumstances
of the world.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti quotes: To say one is revolutionary is a little like saying one is a Zen Buddhist - if you say you are, you probably aren't. To say one is revolutionary is a little like saying one is a Zen Buddhist - if you say you are, you probably aren't.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti quotes: Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone. Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti quotes: You and me could really exist pg. 22// // A Coney Island of the Mind You and me could really exist
pg. 22// // A Coney Island of the Mind
Lawrence Ferlinghetti quotes: The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all 'bottom line' editors; everything depends on the money. The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all 'bottom line' editors; everything depends on the money.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti quotes: If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out. If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti quotes: Our government is a bird with two right wings ... They're devoted to the perpetuation & spread of corporate capitalism. Our government is a bird with two right wings ... They're devoted to the perpetuation & spread of corporate capitalism.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti quotes: Well, I didn't know how to draw very well back then, in the '40s and '50s. Well, I didn't know how to draw very well back then, in the '40s and '50s.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti quotes: And heard the green birds singing/ from the other side of silence pg. 36// A Coney Island of the Mind And heard the green birds singing/ from the other side of silence
pg. 36// A Coney Island of the Mind
Lawrence Ferlinghetti quotes: Is where I first/ fell in love/ with unreality pg. 35// A Coney Island of the Mind Is where I first/ fell in love/ with unreality
pg. 35// A Coney Island of the Mind
Lawrence Ferlinghetti quotes: I see a similarity between dogs and me.Dogs are the true observers walking up and down the world thru the Molloy country. I see a similarity
between dogs and me.
Dogs are the true observers
walking up and down the world
thru the Molloy country.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti quotes: I am going where turtles winI am goingwhere conmen puke and dieDown the sad esplanadesof the official world. I am going where turtles win
I am going
where conmen puke and die
Down the sad esplanades
of the official world.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti quotes: Fuck Art, let's Dance! Fuck Art, let's Dance!
Lawrence Ferlinghetti quotes: Beauty stands and waitswith gravityto start her death-defying leap Beauty stands and waits
with gravity
to start her death-defying leap
Lawrence Ferlinghetti quotes: 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 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.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti quotes: We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace. 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 quotes: I too have drunk and seenthe spider I too have drunk and seen
the spider
Lawrence Ferlinghetti quotes: I feel there is an angel in me' she'd say 'whom I amconstantly shocking I feel there is an angel in me' she'd say
'whom I am
constantly shocking
Lawrence Ferlinghetti quotes: For even bad poetry has relevance for what it does not say for what it leaves out. For even bad poetry has relevance for what it does not say for what it leaves out.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti quotes: Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations. Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti quotes: I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century. I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti quotes: Almost every truly creative being alienated & expatriated in his own country Almost every truly creative being alienated & expatriated in his own country
Lawrence Ferlinghetti quotes: The state of the world calls out for poetry to save it. The state of the world calls out for poetry to save it.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti quotes: I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder
Lawrence Ferlinghetti quotes: 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. 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.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti quotes: No, I didn't become disenchanted. I just couldn't paint like them. No, I didn't become disenchanted. I just couldn't paint like them.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti quotes: When I was a boy I was my father. When I was a boy I was my father.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti quotes: I am waiting for the war to be fought which will make the world safe for anarchy I am waiting for the war to be fought
which will make the world safe for anarchy
Lawrence Ferlinghetti quotes: When you're young, everything seems like a romance. At 96, I can still feel romantic about publishing young unknown writers. When you're young, everything seems like a romance. At 96, I can still feel romantic about publishing young unknown writers.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti quotes: The poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making. The poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti quotes: There is an ecstatic mechanism in birds that makes them fly upwards in spite of worms. There is an ecstatic mechanism in birds that makes them fly upwards in spite of worms.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti quotes: A lot of manuscripts that come in, you wonder by what outrageous fantasy the author believes that this should be pressed into print. A lot of manuscripts that come in, you wonder by what outrageous fantasy the author believes that this should be pressed into print.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti quotes: Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them. Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti quotes: Don't bow down to critics who have not themselves written great masterpieces. Don't bow down to critics who have not themselves written great masterpieces.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti quotes: Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately. Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.

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