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
I am waiting for them to prove that God is really American
I am waiting for the war to be fought which will make the world safe for anarchy
Beauty stands and waits with gravity to start her death-defying leap
I am waiting for the lost music to sound again in a new rebirth of wonder.
There won't be any changes until we have another depression like in the 1930s, which we have not approached yet in the present recession.
I don't think our Beat Generation would even be known as that, had it not been for Ginsberg. You might say he put that whole concept together. Without it, we might have been known, but only as individuals. Separate, great writers, scattered across the landscape.
I greet you at the beginning of a great career,
I had a show at George Krevsky Gallery this past spring. That show traveled to Woodstock, New York where it showed for six weeks.
There are hardly any left in New York City. The San Francisco Bay Area is very fortunate to still have a lot of independent bookstores.
These are international criminals, and the spineless Democrats are doing nothing about it.
No, I didn't become disenchanted. I just couldn't paint like them.
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.
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.
... there is an ecstatic mechanism in birds that makes them fly upwards in spite of worms.