Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Well, I didn't know how to draw very well back then, in the '40s and '50s. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#draw #how #i #know #then

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

#better #communicate #effort #even #lazy

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

#absurdity #audience #climbs #constantly #death

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

#change the world #consciousness #general #only #poets

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

#back #benches #blue #coming #i

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. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#atomic #atomic bombs #been #bombs #dark

I am waiting for them to prove that God is really American. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#american #god #i #i am #prove

Southern California, where the American Dream came too true. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#american dream #california #came #dream #southern

The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all "bottom line" editors; everything depends on the money. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#bottom #bottom line #depends #editors #everything

Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#culture #dominant #everything #opposite #stood