126 Quotes by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Fuck Art, let's Dance!

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

Oh no I have not lainon Beauty Rests like thisafraid to rise at nightfor fear that I might somehow misssome movement beauty might have made

Truth is not the secret of a few'yetyou would maybe think sothe way somelibrariansand cultural ambassadors andespecially museum directorsactyou'd think they had a corneron itthe way theywalk around shaking their high heads andlooking as if they neverwent to the bathroom or anythingBut I wouldn't blame themif I were youThey say the Spiritual is best conceivedin abstract termsand then toowalking around in museums always makes mewant to'sit down'I always feel soconstipatedin thosehigh altitudes

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

Not like Dantediscovering a commediaupon the slopes of heavenI would paint a different kindof Paradisoin which the people would be nakedas they always arein scenes like that because it is supposed to bea painting of their souls but there would be no anxious angels telling themhow heaven isthe perfect picture ofa monarchy and there would be no fires burningin the hellish holes below in which I might have steppednor any altars in the sky exceptfountains of imagination

I too have drunk and seenthe spider

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

I am waitingfor the meek to be blessedand inherit the earth... without taxes