And the Blue Angels are coming back to scare the local population. I remember seeing old Vietnamese women ducking under the benches in Washington Square; they thought they were back in the war. Lawrence Ferlinghetti American Poet More Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes 0
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. Lawrence Ferlinghetti American Poet More Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes 0
Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making. Lawrence Ferlinghetti American Poet More Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes 0
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. Lawrence Ferlinghetti American Poet More Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes 0
Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today. Lawrence Ferlinghetti American Poet More Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes 0
Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately. Lawrence Ferlinghetti American Poet More Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes 0
I am waiting for them to prove that God is really American. Lawrence Ferlinghetti American Poet More Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes 0
I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope. Lawrence Ferlinghetti American Poet More Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes 0
It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something. Lawrence Ferlinghetti American Poet More Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes 0
It's the story of an American who wants to become a dictator and goes to Europe with a sidekick to interview various Fascists to find out how the Nazis and Mussolini got into power. Lawrence Ferlinghetti American Poet More Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes 0
No, I didn't become disenchanted. I just couldn't paint like them. Lawrence Ferlinghetti American Poet More Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes 0
Southern California, where the American Dream came too true. Lawrence Ferlinghetti American Poet More Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes 0
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. Lawrence Ferlinghetti American Poet More Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes 0
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. Lawrence Ferlinghetti American Poet More Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes 0
The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all "bottom line" editors; everything depends on the money. Lawrence Ferlinghetti American Poet More Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes 0
These are international criminals, and the spineless Democrats are doing nothing about it. Lawrence Ferlinghetti American Poet More Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes 0
They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves. Lawrence Ferlinghetti American Poet More Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes 0
We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn't have any money for lawyers. Lawrence Ferlinghetti American Poet More Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes 0