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
When you're young, everything seems like a romance. At 96, I can still feel romantic about publishing young unknown writers.
We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.
Poetry must be capable of answering the challenge of apocalytpic times, even if this means sounding apocaltypic.
I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder
If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.
Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.