Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes

If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.

I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder

Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.

Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.

Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.

Recipe For Happiness Khaborovsk Or Anyplace' One grand boulevard with trees with one grand cafe in sun with strong black coffee in very small cups. One not necessarily very beautiful man or woman who loves you. One fine day.

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

I once started out to walk around the world but ended up in Brooklyn, that Bridge was too much for me.

The art has to make it on its own, without explanations, and it’s the same for poetry. If the poem or the painting has to be explained, then it’s a failure in communication.