Quotes by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

A lot of manuscripts that come in, you wonder by what outrageous fantasy the author believes that this should be pressed into print.

Believe

Fantasy

Wonder

As I get older I perceive Life has its tail in its mouth.

Mouths

Perceive

Tails

Beauty stands and waits with gravity to start her death-defying leap

Beauty

Defying

Waiting

Don’t bow down to critics who have not themselves written great masterpieces.

Bows

Critics

Masterpiece

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.

Book

Independent

Ties

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

Culture

Opposites

Today

For even bad poetry has relevance for what it does not say for what it leaves out.

Doe

Relevance

Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.

Fascists

Freedom Of Speech

World

I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder

Forever

Renaissance

Wonder

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

Sound

Waiting

Wonder

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Critics

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Dad

Defying

Distance

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Dream

Easier

Effort

Fantasy

Fascists

Father

Feels

Forever

Freedom Of Speech

Generations

Government

Graffiti

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Heart

Hippie

Holiday

Home

House

Humanity

Ideas

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Inspirational

Lawyer

Lazy

Littles

Masterpiece

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Quotes by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

A lot of manuscripts that come in, you wonder by what outrageous fantasy the author believes that this should be pressed into print.

As I get older I perceive Life has its tail in its mouth.

Beauty stands and waits with gravity to start her death-defying leap

Don’t bow down to critics who have not themselves written great masterpieces.

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.

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

For even bad poetry has relevance for what it does not say for what it leaves out.

Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.

I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder

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

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