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Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes
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 Quotes
Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that theyd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do. - Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes
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 Quotes
Dont 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 hes stabbing the independent bookstores in the back. - Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes
Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today. - Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes
Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately. - Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes
I am waiting for them to prove that God is really American. - Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes
I had a show at George Krevsky Gallery this past spring. That show traveled to Woodstock, New York where it showed for six weeks. - Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes
I think if theres a great depression there might be some hope. - Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes
Id ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a passing fad. Its got to go. Its got to go a long way from here. - Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes
Im reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century. - Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes
Its much easier to consume the visual image than to read something. - Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes
Its 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 Quotes
No, I didnt become disenchanted. I just couldnt paint like them. - Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes
Southern California, where the American Dream came too true. - Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes
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 Quotes
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 Quotes
The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all bottom line editors; everything depends on the money. - Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes
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. - Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes
There wont be any changes until we have another depression like in the 1930s, which we have not approached yet in the present recession. - Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes
These are international criminals, and the spineless Democrats are doing nothing about it. - Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes
They were looking for a stable, but we didnt have one. In fact, we werent very stable ourselves. - Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes
We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace. - Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes
We were just a one-room bookstore; we didnt have any money for lawyers. - Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes
Well, I didnt know how to draw very well back then, in the 40s and 50s. - Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes
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Above Angels Anyone Atomic Audience Back Been
Blue Bombs Climbs Coming Dark Death Government
Heads High Like Local Making Performs Poet
Population Realize Remember Rhyme Scare Seeing Square
States Suddenly That They Thought Under United
Washington Were What Wire Women Would
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