Quotes By Author: Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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

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

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

“Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.”

“Sometime during eternity some guys show up and one of them who shows up real late is a kind of carpenter from some square-type place like Galilee and he starts wailing and claiming he is hep to who made heaven and earth and that the cat who really laid it on us is his Dad”