Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes

United States, Poet
March 24, 1919

Lawrence Monsanto Ferlinghetti (born March 24, 1919) is an American poet, painter, socialist activist, and the co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers. Author of poetry, translations, fiction, theatre, art criticism, and film narration, he is best known for A Coney Island of the Mind (1958), a collection of poems that has been translated into nine languages, with sales of more than one million copies.

Also known as Painter, Social Activist

Make your mind learn its way around the heart.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- Mind
- Heart
I am waiting for them to prove that God is really American.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- God
- American
- Waiting

Don't bow down to critics who have not themselves written great masterpieces.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Poetry must be capable of answering the challenge of apocalytpic times, even if this means sounding apocaltypic.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti
When you're young, everything seems like a romance. At 96, I can still feel romantic about publishing young unknown writers.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- Romantic
- Young
- Unknown
Beauty stands and waits with gravity to start her death-defying leap

Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- Death
- Leap
- Gravity