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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
American
Poet
About the author
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.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti,
American
Poet
#Publishing
#Future
#Lies
No, I didn't become disenchanted. I just couldn't paint like them.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti,
American
Poet
Well, I didn't know how to draw very well back then, in the '40s and '50s.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti,
American
Poet
We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn't have any money for lawyers.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti,
American
Poet
#Money
#Lawyers
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,
American
Poet
#World
#Change
#Consciousness
#Poets
They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti,
American
Poet
#Fact
These are international criminals, and the spineless Democrats are doing nothing about it.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti,
American
Poet
#Nothing
#Democrats
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,
American
Poet
#People
#May
#Effort
#Painting
Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti,
American
Poet
#American
#Dream
I am waiting for them to prove that God is really American.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti,
American
Poet
#God
#American
#Waiting
I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti,
American
Poet
#Hope
#Depression
I'd ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a passing fad. It's got to go. It's got to go a long way from here.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti,
American
Poet
#Automobiles
I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti,
American
Poet
#Reading
#Brooks
It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti,
American
Poet
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.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti,
American
Poet
#American
#Power
#Europe
The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all "bottom line" editors; everything depends on the money.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti,
American
Poet
#Money
#Editors
#Literary
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.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti,
American
Poet
#Time
#Books
Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti,
American
Poet
#Today
#Culture
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,
American
Poet
#Death
#Absurdity
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,
American
Poet
#Government
#states
#United
#Bombs
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,
American
Poet
#War
#Thought
#Population
#Old
#Washington
#Women
#Angels
Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti,
American
Poet
#World
#Freedom
#Speech