Quotes by : Lawrence Ferlinghetti

I am waiting for the war to be fought which will make the world safe for anarchy

Don't bow down to critics who have not themselves written great masterpieces.

Almost every truly creative being alienated & expatriated in his own country

Decide if a poem is a question or a declaration, a meditation or an outcry.

Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books....

I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away.

We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.

I once started outto walk around the worldbut ended up in Brooklyn,that Bridge was too much for me.

Pity the nation whose people are sheep,and whose shepherds mislead them.Pity the nation whose leaders....

Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.