We'd like to just write nothing but lyric poetry. The trouble is, the individual is going along intent on his own personal gratifications and love af…

- Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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

- Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Make your mind learn its way around the heart.

- Lawrence Ferlinghetti

It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something.

- Lawrence Ferlinghetti

If you would be a poet, write living newspapers. Be a reporter from outer space, filing dispatches to some supreme managing editor who believes in fu…

- Lawrence Ferlinghetti

I am waiting for the lost music to sound again in a new rebirth of wonder.

- Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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

- Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Our government is a bird with two right wings... They're devoted to the perpetuation & spread of corporate capitalism.

- Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.

- Lawrence Ferlinghetti