126 Quotes by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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

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.

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

Think long thoughts in short sentences.

If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.

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

Papermay burnbut wordswill escape.

Sometime during eternity some guys show up and one of them who shows up real late is a kind of carpenter from some square-type place like Galilee and he starts wailing and claiming he is hep to who made heaven and earth and that the cat who really laid it on us is his Dad

I am waiting for my case to come up and I am waiting for a rebirth of wonderand I am waiting for someoneto really discover Americaand wail