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