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Recipe For Happiness Khaborovsk Or Anyplace'One grand boulevard with treeswith one grand cafe in sunwith strong black coffee in very small cups.One not necessarily very beautifulman or woman who loves you.One fine day.

~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Lawrence Ferlinghetti Happiness Poetry

Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.

~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Lawrence Ferlinghetti Poetry

Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.

~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Lawrence Ferlinghetti Lyricism Poetry

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

~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Lawrence Ferlinghetti Eroticism Poetry Sexual Tension

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

~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Lawrence Ferlinghetti Humor Paraphrased Poetry

See it was like this when we waltz into this place.A couple of papish cats is doing an Aztec two-stepAnd I says Dad let's cutbut then this dame comes up behind me see and says you and me could really existWow I says Only the next day she has bad teeth and really hates poetry.

~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Lawrence Ferlinghetti Beat Poetry

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

~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Lawrence Ferlinghetti Irony 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 Ferlinghetti

Lawrence Ferlinghetti Art Bookstores Literature Poetry

[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.

~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Lawrence Ferlinghetti Art Artist Beatnik Emptiness Existentialism

I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away.

~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Lawrence Ferlinghetti Paraphrased Retirement Writers

Decide if a poem is a question or a declaration, a meditation or an outcry.

~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Lawrence Ferlinghetti Poetry Poetry Quotes

Almost every truly creative being alienated & expatriated in his own country

~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Lawrence Ferlinghetti Poetry Quotes

Don't bow down to critics who have not themselves written great masterpieces.

~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Lawrence Ferlinghetti Critics Masterpieces Poets

I once started outto walk around the worldbut ended up in Brooklyn,that Bridge was too much for me.

~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Lawrence Ferlinghetti New York City

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

~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Lawrence Ferlinghetti Great Depression Think

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

~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Lawrence Ferlinghetti World Freedom Of Speech
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