Poetry Quote by Lawrence Ferlinghetti — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Decide if a poem is a question or a declaration, a meditation or an outcry.”

“Recipe For Happiness Khaborovsk Or Anyplace'”

“See”

“I am waiting for the war to be fought”

“Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.”

“Think long thoughts in short sentences.”

“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?”

“But tomorrow, dawn will come the way I picture her,”

“From the mind which thinks to die, let my soul sleep tonight.”

“I am a free soul, singing my heart out by myself no matter where I go and I call strangers my friends because I learn things and find ways to fit them into my own world. I hear what people say, rearrange it, take away and tear apart until it finds value in my reality and there I make it work. I find spaces in between the cracks and cuts where it feels empty”

“O Stunden in der Kindheit,”

“I hunger for your sleek laugh and your hands the color of a furious harvest. I want to eat the sunbeams flaring in your beauty.”