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I am waiting for them to prove that God is really American. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn't have any money for lawyers. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Blink at the sunned scratch
and stumble into silence
pg. 55// A Coney Island of the Mind — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Invent a new language anyone can understand. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Poetry must be capable of answering the challenge of apocalytpic times, even if this means sounding apocaltypic. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture. — David Amram

Her eyes downcast all the while/ and singing to herself
pg. 18// A Coney Island of the Mind — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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

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

Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Southern California, where the American Dream came too true. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Watching the world walk by
in its curious shoes
pg. 61// A Coney Island of the Mind — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Think long thoughts in short sentences. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Make your mind learn its way around the heart. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings. — 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. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

As I get older I perceive Life has its tail in its mouth. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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

Poetry is the shortest distance between two humans. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

These are international criminals, and the spineless Democrats are doing nothing about it. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

I am waiting for the lost music to sound again in a new rebirth of wonder. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

I am waiting
for the meek to be blessed
and inherit the earth ...
without taxes — 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

My country tears of thee. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

I flew too near the sun
and my wax wings fell off
pg. 62// A Coney Island of the Mind — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

I have seen giraffes in junglejims
their necks like love
wound around the iron circumstances
of the world. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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

Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

You and me could really exist
pg. 22// // A Coney Island of the Mind — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all 'bottom line' editors; everything depends on the money. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Our government is a bird with two right wings ... They're devoted to the perpetuation & spread of corporate capitalism. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Well, I didn't know how to draw very well back then, in the '40s and '50s. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

And heard the green birds singing/ from the other side of silence
pg. 36// A Coney Island of the Mind — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Is where I first/ fell in love/ with unreality
pg. 35// A Coney Island of the Mind — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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

I am going where turtles win
I am going
where conmen puke and die
Down the sad esplanades
of the official world. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Fuck Art, let's Dance! — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Beauty stands and waits
with gravity
to start her death-defying leap — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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

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 too have drunk and seen
the spider — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

I feel there is an angel in me' she'd say
'whom I am
constantly shocking — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

For even bad poetry has relevance for what it does not say for what it leaves out. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Almost every truly creative being alienated & expatriated in his own country — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

The state of the world calls out for poetry to save it. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder — 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. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

No, I didn't become disenchanted. I just couldn't paint like them. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

When I was a boy I was my father. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

I am waiting for the war to be fought
which will make the world safe for anarchy — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

When you're young, everything seems like a romance. At 96, I can still feel romantic about publishing young unknown writers. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

The poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

There is an ecstatic mechanism in birds that makes them fly upwards in spite of worms. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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

In the room, the cats eat mad spaghetti
Talking of Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
--from "The Dream Song of J. Alfred Kerowack. — Richard Farina

Don't bow down to critics who have not themselves written great masterpieces. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti