Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti quotes and sayings page 2 (105 year old poet). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 22 we have for him.
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.”
“These are international criminals, and the spineless Democrats are doing nothing about it.”
“No, I didn't become disenchanted. I just couldn't paint like them.”
“I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.”
“The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of huge conglomerates.”
“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.”
“The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all 'bottom line' editors; everything depends on the money.”
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