126 Quotes by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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

I once started out to walk around the world but ended up in Brooklyn.

I am going where turtles winI am goingwhere conmen puke and dieDown the sad esplanadesof the official world.

The light of San Franciscois a sea lightan island lightAnd the light of fogblanketing the hillsdrifting in at nightthrough the Golden Gateto lie on the city at dawn...

I have heard a hundred housebroken Ezra Pounds.They should all be freed.It is long since I was a herdsman.

I have seen the Virginin an appletree at ChartresAnd Saint Joan burnat the Bella Union.I have seen giraffes in junglejimstheir necks like lovewound around the iron circumstancesof the world.I have seen the Venus Aphroditearmless in her drafty corridor.I have heard a siren singat One Fifth Avenue.I have seen the White Goddess dancingin the Rue des Beaux Artson the Fourteenth of Julyand the Beautiful Dame Without Mercypicking her nose in Chumley's.

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

Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do.

It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something.