Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Zitate auf Englisch
“Poetry is the shadow cast by our imaginations.”
These Are My Rivers: New & Selected Poems, 1955-1993 (New Directions) ISBN: 0-0112-1273-4 0-0112-1252-1
“Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.”
Quelle: Poetry as Insurgent Art
San Francisco Chronicle, September 24, 2012 http://www.sfgate.com/books/article/Lawrence-Ferlinghetti-s-indelible-image-3886925.php#page-2
“Don't bow down to critics who have not themselves written great masterpieces.”
Quelle: City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology
“We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.”
Quelle: Wild Dreams of a New Beginning
Lawrence Ferlinghetti buch A Coney Island of the Mind
Quelle: A Coney Island of the Mind
“I am waiting for the war to be fought
which will make the world safe for anarchy”
Lawrence Ferlinghetti buch A Coney Island of the Mind
Quelle: A Coney Island of the Mind
“The pennycandystore beyond the El
is where I first
fell in love
with unreality”
A Coney Island of the Mind http://www.litkicks.com/Texts/ConeyIsland20.html
“It was a face which darkness could kill
in an instant”
Pictures of the Gone World http://www.litkicks.com/Texts/GoneWorld8.html
