Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes

Well, I didn’t know how to draw very well back then, in the ’40s and ’50s.

We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn’t have any money for lawyers.

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.

We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.

They were looking for a stable, but we didn’t have one. In fact, we weren’t very stable ourselves.

These are international criminals, and the spineless Democrats are doing nothing about it.

The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all “bottom line” editors; everything depends on the money.

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.

Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.