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Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes: 9

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

  • I am awaitingperpetually and forevera renaissance of wonder

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

    Americus, Book I
  • Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.

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

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

    Poetry as Insurgent Art
  • 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.

  • I feel there is an angel in me' she'd say 'whom I amconstantly shocking

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

    Wild Dreams of a New Beginning