126 Quotes by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

And the Blue Angels are coming back to scare the local population. I remember seeing old Vietnamese women ducking under the benches in Washington Square; they thought they were back in the war.

The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem.

No, I didn't become disenchanted. I just couldn't paint like them.

These are international criminals, and the spineless Democrats are doing nothing about it.

I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.

The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of huge conglomerates.

The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all 'bottom line' editors; everything depends on the money.

They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves.

Well, I didn't know how to draw very well back then, in the '40s and '50s.