Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. 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.

2. Decide if a poem is a question or a declaration, a meditation or an outcry. Poetry as Insurgent Art

3. 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.

4. I am awaitingperpetually and forevera renaissance of wonder

5. I am waiting for the war to be fought which will make the world safe for anarchy A Coney Island of the Mind

6. I feel there is an angel in me' she'd say 'whom I amconstantly shocking

7. Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them. Poetry as Insurgent Art

8. Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone. Americus, Book I

9. Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. The world is a beautiful placeto be born intoif you don't mind happinessnot always beingso very much funif you don't mind a touch of hellnow and thenjust when everything is finebecause even in heaventhey don't singall the timeThe world is a beautiful placeto be born intoif you don't mind some people dyingall the timeor maybe only starvingsome of the timewhich isn't half badif it isn't youOh the world is a beautiful placeto be born intoif you don't much minda few dead mindsin the higher placesor a bomb or twonow and thenin your upturned facesor such other improprietiesas our Name Brand societyis prey towith its men of distinctionand its men of extinctionand its priestsand other patrolmenand its various segregationsand congressional investigationsand other constipationsthat our fool fleshis heir toYes the world is the best place of allfor a lot of such things asmaking the fun sceneand making the love sceneand making the sad sceneand singing low songs and having inspirationsand walking aroundlooking at everythingand smelling flowersand goosing statuesand even thinkingand kissing people andmaking babies and wearing pantsand waving hats anddancingand going swimming in riverson picnicsin the middle of the summerand just generally'living it up'Yesbut then right in the middle of itcomes the smilingmortician City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology

13. Think long thoughts in short sentences.

14. We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings. Wild Dreams of a New Beginning