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
Lawrence Ferlinghetti quotes about
No, I didn't become disenchanted. I just couldn't paint like them.
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.
I am waiting for them to prove that God is really American
To say one is revolutionary is a little like saying one is a Zen Buddhist - if you say you are, you probably aren't.
Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.
Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.
Don't bow down to critics who have not themselves written great masterpieces.
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.
These are international criminals, and the spineless Democrats are doing nothing about it.