17 Quotes by Lawrence Ferlinghetti about poetry
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Recipe For Happiness Khaborovsk Or Anyplace'One grand boulevard with treeswith one grand cafe in sunwith strong black coffee in very small cups.One not necessarily very beautifulman or woman who loves you.One fine day.
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I am awaitingperpetually and forevera renaissance of wonder
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Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.
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Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.
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Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.
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We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.
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Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back.
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I feel there is an angel in me' she'd say 'whom I amconstantly shocking
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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.
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