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

“The world is a beautiful place”

“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.”

“Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.”

“I am waiting for the war to be fought”

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

“See”

“Books are carefully folded forests/void of autumn/bound from the sun”

“Love what is simple and beautiful.”

“look, you know i don't wanna come on ungrateful, but that warren report, you know as well as me, just didn't make it. You know, like they might as well have asked some banana salesman from des moines, who was up in toronto on the big day, if he saw anyone around looking suspicious/...”

“Thou shalt believe in Milton, Dryden, Pope;”

“When composing a verse let there not be a hair's breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.”

“Some say, don't burn your bridges.”