Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes

American - Poet | March 24, 1919 -

I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

HopeGreatDepressionThinkSome

Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

FreedomWorldSpeechAlwaysAttack

They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

LookingFactOurselvesStableVery

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

DeathAudienceHighOwnPoetAbove

Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do.

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GovernmentDarkRealizeSawBeen

These are international criminals, and the spineless Democrats are doing nothing about it.

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DoingNothingDemocratsCriminals

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.

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WomenWarBlueThoughtRememberOld

Don't 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 he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back.

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TimeFeelBackIndependentHimSee

I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.

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BookReadingEarlyWonderfulLast

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.

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PowerStoryAmericanFindBecome

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.

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FutureNew YorkSmallNewBigLies

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

EffortPeoplePaintingBetterLook

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