Quotes by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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It would have been nice had we provided a nice warm stable and we were feeding them regularly - the care and feeding of poets.
There are skyscrapers in Sumatra, in China, in Japan, in the Middle East, in mid-Europe, in all the countries that were once under dictatorships.
I'm still working on it. Look what it did for Pisa!
Many of the poets in the high poetic positions have been singularly silent or, at best, come out with a low mumble.
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.
No, I didn't become disenchanted. I just couldn't paint like them.
I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.
I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope.
There are hardly any left in New York City. The San Francisco Bay Area is very fortunate to still have a lot of independent bookstores.
Well, I didn't know how to draw very well back then, in the '40s and '50s.
These are international criminals, and the spineless Democrats are doing nothing about it.
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.
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.
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