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Famous Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes
“Invent a new language anyone can understand.”
Source: Poetry as Insurgent Art
“I am waiting for the lost music to sound again in a new rebirth of wonder.”
Source: These are My Rivers: New & Selected Poems, 1955-1993
“I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope.”
“I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.”
Source: A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems
“They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves.”
“It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something.”
“Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.”
Source: European Poems & Transitions: Over All the Obscene Boundaries
“We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn't have any money for lawyers.”
Source: These are My Rivers: New & Selected Poems, 1955-1993
“Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today.”
“Well, I didn't know how to draw very well back then, in the '40s and '50s.”
Source: San Francisco Poems