Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes

• No, I didn’t become disenchanted. I just couldn’t paint like them.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

• It’s the story of an American who wants to become a dictator and goes to Europe with a sidekick to interview various Fascists to find out how the Nazis and Mussolini got into power.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

• I’m reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

• I think if there’s a great depression there might be some hope.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

• I’d ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a passing fad. It’s got to go. It’s got to go a long way from here.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

• I am waiting for them to prove that God is really American.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

• 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

• Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they’d been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

• And the Blue Angels are coming back to scare the local population. I remember seeing old Vietnamese women ducking under the benches in Washington Square; they thought they were back in the war.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Lawrence Ferlinghetti (32)

Birth:	24th March, 1919
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Activist, Painter, Poet

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