We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.
Lawrence FerlinghettiTags: humor paraphrased poetry
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 FerlinghettiTags: art poetry literature bookstores
Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.
Lawrence FerlinghettiDon't bow down to critics who have not themselves written great masterpieces.
Lawrence FerlinghettiTags: poets critics masterpieces
I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away.
Lawrence FerlinghettiTags: paraphrased writers retirement
It was a face which darkness could kill
in an instant
a face as easily hurt
by laughter or light
'We think differently at night'
she told me once
lying back languidly
And she would quote Cocteau
'I feel there is an angel in me' she'd say
'whom I am constantly shocking'
Then she would smile and look away
light a cigarette for me
sigh and rise
and stretch
her sweet anatomy
let fall a stocking
I am waiting for the war to be fought
which will make the world safe for anarchy
[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.
Tags: art existentialism artist emptiness beatnik
The art has to make it on its own, without explanations, and it’s the same for poetry. If the poem or the painting has to be explained, then it’s a failure in communication.
Lawrence FerlinghettiAlmost every truly creative being alienated
Lawrence FerlinghettiTags: poetry-quotes
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