If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out. - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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
See it was like this when we waltz into this place.A couple of papish cats is doing an Aztec two-stepAnd I says Dad let's cutbut then this dame comes up behind me see and says you and me could really existWow I says Only the next day she has bad teeth and really hates poetry. - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I am awaitingperpetually and forevera renaissance of wonder - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I feel there is an angel in me' she'd say 'whom I amconstantly shocking - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Recipe For Happiness Khaborovsk Or Anyplace'One grand boulevard with treeswith one grand cafe in sunwith strong black coffee in very small cups.One not necessarily very beautifulman or woman who loves you.One fine day. - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations. - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away. - Lawrence Ferlinghetti