Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Lawrence Monsanto Ferlinghettiis an American poet, painter, liberal activist, and the co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers. Author of poetry, translations, fiction, theatre, art criticism, and film narration, he is best known for A Coney Island of the Mind, a collection of poems that has been translated into nine languages, with sales of more than one million copies...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth24 March 1919
CityBronxville, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Make your mind learn its way around the heart.
For even bad poetry has relevance for what it does not say for what it leaves out.
I have a feeling I'm falling on rare occasions but most of the time I have my feet on the ground I can't help it if the ground itself is falling.
As I get older I perceive Life has its tail in its mouth.
I am waiting for the war to be fought which will make the world safe for anarchy
I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away.
I feel there is an angel in me' she'd say 'whom I am constantly shocking
When I was a boy I was my father.
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.
Well, I didn't know how to draw very well back then, in the '40s and '50s.
It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something.
I'd ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a passing fad. It's got to go. It's got to go a long way from here.
They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves.
My country tears of thee.