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Lawrence Ferlinghetti - From the Aging category:
I didn't know that painters and writers retired. They're like soldiers - they just fade away. (Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti - From the Art category:
The art has to make it on its own, without explanations, and it's the same for poetry. If the poem or the painting has to be explained, then it's a failure in communication. (Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti - From the Books category:
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)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti - From the Communication category:
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)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti - From the Critics category:
Don't bow down to critics who have not themselves written great masterpieces. (Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti - From the Dissatisfaction category:
No, I didn't become disenchanted. I just couldn't paint like them. (Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti - From the Imagination category:
Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations. (Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti - From the Intellect category:
If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out. (Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti - From the Poetry category:
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)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti - From the Poetry category:
Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone. (Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti - From the Religion category:
I am waiting for them to prove that God is really American. (Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti - From the Risk category:
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)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti - From the Shock category:
'I feel there is an angel in me,' she'd say,
'whom I am constantly shocking.' (Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti - From the Spectator category:
It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something. (Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti - From the Wonder category:
I am awaiting / perpetually and forever / a renaissance of wonder (Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
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