Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes
For even bad poetry has relevance for what it does not say for what it leaves out.
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The bad news is, I have worked less than I have liked. The good news is, I can look back on my body of work and feel truly proud of the work I have done.
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Because I'm a big guy, I was always playing the bad guy or whatever, but after I did 'The Blind Side,' where I played a father who's a really loving, likeable sort of person, a lot of those barriers were broken down. People saw me as something softer, not so much as a heavy anymore.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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I wrote poetry before I wrote songs, and T.S. Eliot was my inspiration. I love his honesty and try to bring that to my own songwriting.
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I couldn't have children, so that's the bad side. But compared to everything else I have, it's not all that terribly bad. I count my winners rather than my losers.
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I came up in the theater, and I learned pretty quickly that reading a review, whether it's good or bad, can strangely affect the next performances, because you're reacting to something that's been said about you. So I tend to avoid that stuff pretty studiously.
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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
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When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.
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If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters.
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Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.
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You learn a whole lot more about a person if they have bad breaks and all those kind of things.
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I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough.
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I've had more ups than downs in my career. All you can do is keep working. You still have to take enjoyment out of what you're doing, and things will turn, and my smile has always been there. In good moments and bad.
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To see yourself on the big screen, you're big, you hate your voice, your vocabulary. You say the same words, you speak bad.
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The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use to investors.
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If I have a bad shooting day, my dad will take me to the gym.
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You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.
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Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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I love playing the bad guy getting away with stuff. I was that kid who learned from my older brothers who got away with everything by smiling.
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Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.
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Go! Go! Go! It makes no difference where, just so you go! Go! Go! Remember, at the first opportunity, go.
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It really is true that when an issue becomes pop culture, it changes faster, and it's really great for the issue.
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I am not good wife material because I'm fiercely independent and like to go off and do my own thing.
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For even bad poetry has relevance for what it does not say for what it leaves out.
