There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.

He despised causeless affection, just as he despised unearned wealth. They professed to love him for some unknown reason and they ignored all the things for which he could wish to be loved. He wondered what response they could hope to obtain from him in such manner—if his response was what they wanted.

Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.

Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they&#39;d been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Quotes by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Written By Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Written By Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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