Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes

Recipe For Happiness Khaborovsk Or Anyplace'

One grand boulevard with trees
with one grand cafe in sun
with strong black coffee in very small cups.

One not necessarily very beautiful
man or woman who loves you.

One fine day.

If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.

I am awaiting
perpetually and forever
a renaissance of wonder

Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.

Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.

Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.

We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.

I feel there is an angel in me' she'd say
'whom I am
constantly shocking

I am waiting for the war to be fought
which will make the world safe for anarchy

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.

[in the true mad north] of introspection,
where 'falcons of the inner eye'
dive and die, glimpsing in their
dying fall, all life's memory of existence.