Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Quotes by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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Poet · American · 1919–2021

American poet (1919–2021)

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“If you're too open-minded your brains will fall out.”
— Lawrence Ferlinghetti
beatnik cynical funny humour

“I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away.”
— Lawrence Ferlinghetti
paraphrased retirement writers

“The pennycandystore beyond the Elis where I firstfell in lovewith unreality”
— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“It was a face which darkness could killin an instant”
— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“Poetry is the shadow cast by our imaginations.”
— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“I was the all-American boy, the Eagle Scout. I remember I was at my girlfriend's apartment, and there were these strange publications like The Nation and The New Republic. I started looking at them...”
— Lawrence Ferlinghetti