Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Poet

1919-03-24

Quotes by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

• [in the true mad north] of introspection,where 'falcons of the inner eye'dive and die, glimpsing in their dying fall, all life's memory of existence.

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

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• Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back.

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• See it was like this when we waltz into this place.A couple of papish cats is doing an Aztec two-stepAnd I says Dad let's cutbut then this dame comes up behind me see and says you and me could really existWow I says Only the next day she has bad teeth and really hates poetry.

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

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• Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.

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• Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.

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• I am awaitingperpetually and forevera renaissance of wonder

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

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

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• Recipe For Happiness Khaborovsk Or Anyplace'One grand boulevard with treeswith one grand cafe in sunwith strong black coffee in very small cups.One not necessarily very beautifulman or woman who loves you.One fine day.

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• See it was like this when we waltz into this place.A couple of papish cats is doing an Aztec two-stepAnd I says Dad let's cutbut then this dame comes up behind me see and says you and me could really existWow I says Only the next day she has bad teeth and really hates poetry.

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• [in the true mad north] of introspection,where 'falcons of the inner eye'dive and die, glimpsing in their dying fall, all life's memory of existence.

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

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

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• Recipe For Happiness Khaborovsk Or Anyplace'One grand boulevard with treeswith one grand cafe in sunwith strong black coffee in very small cups.One not necessarily very beautifulman or woman who loves you.One fine day.

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

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• I am awaitingperpetually and forevera renaissance of wonder

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• Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.

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

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