Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes

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

Pity the nation whose people are sheep,and whose shepherds mislead them.Pity the nation whose leader...

See it was like this when we waltz into this place.A couple of papish cats is doing an Aztec two-ste...

If you're too open-minded your brains will fall out.

I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away.

Recipe For Happiness Khaborovsk Or Anyplace'One grand boulevard with treeswith one grand cafe in sun...

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

Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.

I am awaitingperpetually and forevera renaissance of wonder

Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the worl...

Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his bo...

[in the true mad north] of introspection,where 'falcons of the inner eye'dive and die, glimpsing in ...

I once started outto walk around the worldbut ended up in Brooklyn,that Bridge was too much for me.

Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.

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

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

Decide if a poem is a question or a declaration, a meditation or an outcry.

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

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