“In Goya's greatest scenes we seem to see the people of the world exactly at the moment when they first attained the title of 'suffering humanity” PeopleWorldFirstsMomentsSeemsSufferingHumanitySceneTitlesGoya Book:A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems Source: A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems
“I was on television a couple of years ago and the reporter asked me, "How does it feel being on mainstream media? It's not often poets get on mainstream media." I said, "Well I think you're the dominant media, the dominant culture, but you're not the mainstream media. The mainstream media is still the high culture of intellectuals: writers, readers, editors, librarians, professors, artists, art critics, poets, novelists, and people who think. They are the mainstream culture, even though you may be the dominant culture."” PeopleThinkingArtArtistCulturePoetCoupleCriticsLibrarian Author:Lawrence Ferlinghetti
“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.” PeopleLooksMayEffortPaintingCommunicateLazyLaziness Author:Lawrence Ferlinghetti
“The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind some people dying all the time or maybe only starving some of the time which isn't half so bad if it isn't you.” PeopleIfsWorldLifeMindBeautifulBornHalfDyingStarvingBeautiful PlacesPeople Dying Book:These are My Rivers: New & Selected Poems, 1955-1993 Source: These are My Rivers: New & Selected Poems, 1955-1993
