Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign hi...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI [in the true mad north] of introspection,
where 'falcons of the inner eye'
dive and die, g...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind some people dying all the time or m...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poe...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI I'd ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a pa...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI No, I didn't become disenchanted. I just couldn't paint like them.
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope.
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI It's the story of an American who wants to become a dictator and goes to Europe with a sidekick ...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the worl...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI ... there is an ecstatic mechanism in birds that makes them fly upwards in spite of worms.
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI I guess we all could have been put in jail for that. Do you think the statute of limitations has exp...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI I am awaiting
perpetually and forever
a renaissance of wonder
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI The art has to make it on its own, without explanations, and it’s the same for poetry. If the poem...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI It was a face which darkness could kill
in an instant
a face as easily hurt
...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Recipe For Happiness Khaborovsk Or Anyplace'

One grand boulevard with trees
with one...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Southern California, where the American Dream came too true
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI I am waiting for them to prove that God is really American
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today.
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Paperbacks weren't considered real books in the book trade. Up till then it was just murder mysterie...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his bo...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United S...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Don't bow down to critics who have not themselves written great masterpieces.
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Pity the nation whose people are sheep,
and whose shepherds mislead them.
Pity the nation ...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something.
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away.
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI I once started out
to walk around the world
but ended up in Brooklyn,
that Bridge was...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Blink at the sunned scratch
and stumble into silence

pg. 55// A Coney Island of the ...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI And heard the green birds singing/ from the other side of silence"

pg. 36// A Coney Isla...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI is where I first/ fell in love/ with unreality"

pg. 35// A Coney Island of the Mind
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI and balancing on eye beams/ above a sea of faces/ paces his way/ to the other side of day"
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI I have seen the Virgin
in an appletree at Chartres
And Saint Joan burn
at the Bella U...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI and I am waiting/ for Alice in Wonderland/ to retransmit to me/ her total dream of innocence"
<...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI her eyes downcast all the while/ and singing to herself"

pg. 18// A Coney Island of the ...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI I have dreamt that all my teeth fell out but my tongue lived to tell the tale

pg. 65// A ...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Souls dance undressed/ together/ and like loiterers/ on the fringes of a fair/ we ogle the unobtaina...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI I once started out to walk around the world but ended up in Brooklyn.
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Constantly risking absurdity
and death
whenever he performs
above the heads
of ...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Cast up
the heart flops over
gasping 'Love'

a foolish fish which tries to draw<...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI I am waiting for the war to be fought
which will make the world safe for anarchy
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI See
it was like this when
we waltz into this place.
A couple of papish cats
i...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI I am waiting
for the meek to be blessed
and inherit the earth...

without taxes
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI I flew too near the sun
and my wax wings fell off

pg. 62// A Coney Island of the Mi...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI The locust continues
to devour the world
Hunger persists
Love lurches on
listing...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Let us arise and go now
to the Isle of Manisfree
and live the true blue simple life
o...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poetry is the shortest distance between two humans.
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI I have seen giraffes in junglejims
their necks like love
wound around the iron circumstanc...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Almost every truly creative being alienated & expatriated in his own country
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI The world is a beautiful place
to be born into
if you don't mind happiness
not always...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Fuck Art, let's Dance!
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI I don't think our Beat Generation would even be known as that, had it not been for Ginsberg. You mig...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI This is all very nice, because the ideas that Jack and the Beat generation stood for are needed toda...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI I greet you at the beginning of a great career,
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI The world is a beautiful place to be born into - if you don't mind some people dying all the time - ...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI I have a feeling I'm falling on rare occasions but most of the time I have my feet on the ground I c...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI We all have somebody that sits down at the Thanksgiving table and says the most outrageous things, a...
VICKI LAWRENCE In spite of the Depression, or maybe because of it, folks were hungry for a good time, and an evenin...
LAWRENCE WELK My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I did...
LAWRENCE WELK One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers...
LAWRENCE WELK Many times I wondered if I were truly carrying out God's plan for my life.
LAWRENCE WELK Sounds always fascinated me.
LAWRENCE WELK The first time I try anything is invariably not very successful. I tend to grow slowly, but solidly.
LAWRENCE WELK The ones the listeners loved most of all in those early years were the four Lennon girls who became ...
LAWRENCE WELK When my parents first arrived there, North Dakota had just been admitted to the Union, and the count...
LAWRENCE WELK Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or...
LAWRENCE WELK It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair.
LAWRENCE WELK For a while we had trouble trying to get the sound of a champagne cork exploding out of the bottle. ...
LAWRENCE WELK Night after night I could feel the chills go up and down my spine, they played so well.
LAWRENCE WELK The William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh... was the place where Champagne Music was born.
LAWRENCE WELK If they can't hum it after we play it, it's not for us.
LAWRENCE WELK This is the best biography by me I have ever read.
LAWRENCE WELK I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly.
LAWRENCE WELK If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the mone...
LAWRENCE WELK Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure.
LAWRENCE WELK One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.
LAWRENCE WELK I just wrote a book, but don't go out and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finishe...
LAWRENCE WELK I have a tremendous desire to learn, and to grow, and to develop whatever I have that will make for ...
LAWRENCE WELK The internet to me is kind of like a black hole, and I never really go on it.
JENNIFER LAWRENCE I think coming East and doing something like Broadway would probably be a good career move.
VICKI LAWRENCE I am not a politician; I've never run for anything in my life. I'm an economist. I'm a b...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW The E.U.'s tax and regulatory policies, climate-change and welfare spending, and free immigratio...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW Wars breed unfairness, just as they breed collateral damage.
LAWRENCE KUDLOW We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not kn...
D.H. LAWRENCE We were endowed by our Creator with the inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happi...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW Let's bring in Donald Trump. He wants to lower taxes across the board for individuals and large ...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW We all know him: everybody has an Archie Bunker in their family, so you love to laugh at him, and yo...
VICKI LAWRENCE There is a natural partnership between State and Commerce, and the American business community to wo...
LAWRENCE EAGLEBURGER And when I'm on set, I'm just thinking about the script and of working. I think I've sta...
JENNIFER LAWRENCE When I started on the 'Burnett' show, I was just out of high school, and when we went off th...
VICKI LAWRENCE The thing that everybody loves about the 'Burnett Show' was that you felt like you were real...
VICKI LAWRENCE It took me a lot of years on the 'Burnett' show to feel like I had earned the privilege to p...
VICKI LAWRENCE Most of the cast and crew on 'Mama's Family' have been together since the 'Carol Bur...
VICKI LAWRENCE People would get Carol Burnett and Vicki Lawrence all mushed together in their brains, and, bless th...
VICKI LAWRENCE Everybody just told me from the day I went into high school that I looked like Carol Burnett.
VICKI LAWRENCE Everyone has fond memories of 'The Carol Burnett Show' and the characters we did.
VICKI LAWRENCE I think the Mama people remember is from 'Mama's Family.' She really turned into a prett...
VICKI LAWRENCE There were probably about five games in my career where everything was moving in slow motion and you...
LAWRENCE TAYLOR On economic policy, Pence has held to the key building block of growth. He is a budget hawk who vote...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW Plot is what happens in your story. Every story needs structure, just as every body needs a skeleton...
CAROLINE LAWRENCE And I tell ya, when I sit in that sound booth and started reading the script and starting to get int...
LAWRENCE TAYLOR In the 1980s and 1990s, radical change in economic policies fostered by Ronald Reagan and Margaret T...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your hear...
LAWRENCE BIXBY Lucifer spoke thus. Pride took him from heaven, though he sat at God's right hand.' Her voice grew f...
MARK LAWRENCE Yes, there should be tough border security. Yes, there should be foolproof ID cards, with biometrics...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW Great innovators like Thomas Alva Edison, Henry Ford, and Andrew Carnegie didn't rely on governm...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW We’ll have to get you a sword,” I said. “When funds allow.”
Snorri shook his head. “A...
MARK LAWRENCE Those were great big angry men with sharp swords actually wanting to cut pieces off me. It’s not u...
MARK LAWRENCE It's shame that gets us killed. Shame is the anchor, the heaviest burden to carry from the battlefie...
MARK LAWRENCE I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.
LAWRENCE DURRELL Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095 As for the miseries and sins he heard of da...
BROTHER LAWRENCE Lift up your heart to Him, sometimes even at your meals, and when you are in company; the least litt...
BROTHER LAWRENCE Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bi...
BROTHER LAWRENCE Commemoration of Rose of Lima, Contemplative, 1617 Lift up your heart to Him, sometimes even at ...
BROTHER LAWRENCE The sorest afflictions never appear intolerable, but when we see them in the wrong light: when we se...
BROTHER LAWRENCE Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thér...
BROTHER LAWRENCE Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942 I have quitted all forms of devotion and set p...
BROTHER LAWRENCE He said: that it was a Great delusion to think that the times of prayer ought to differ from other t...
BROTHER LAWRENCE Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379 You will tell me...
BROTHER LAWRENCE Feast of Perpetua, Felicity & their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203 Use yourself then by deg...
BROTHER LAWRENCE He had no qualms; "for", said he, "when I fail in my duty, I readily acknowledge it, saying, 'I am u...
BROTHER LAWRENCE There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful than that of a continual walk wit...
BROTHER LAWRENCE [He said] that it was a great delusion to think that the times of prayer ought to differ from other ...
BROTHER LAWRENCE One way to recall the mind easily in the time of prayer, and preserve it more in tranquility, is not...
BROTHER LAWRENCE Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066 [He said:] That all possible kinds of mortification, if they ...
BROTHER LAWRENCE Feast of Thomas the Apostle Good when He gives, supremely good; Nor less when He denies: Afflictio...
BROTHER LAWRENCE We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness o...
BROTHER LAWRENCE Youth and patience are foreign to one another.
R.J. LAWRENCE It's easier to be wise for others than for yourself.
R.J. LAWRENCE Every generation welcomes the pirates from the last.
LAWRENCE LESSIG Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one's history, and yet is not...
D.H. LAWRENCE A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.
D.H. LAWRENCE The time of business does not with me differ from the time of prayer, and in the noise and clatter o...
BROTHER LAWRENCE All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake u...
T.E. LAWRENCE Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
LAWRENCE DURRELL Music is only love looking for words.
LAWRENCE DURRELL Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.
LAWRENCE DURRELL If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there ...
MARTIN LAWRENCE Wearing overalls on weekdays, painting somebody else's house to earn money? You're working class. We...
LAWRENCE SUTTON The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love l...
LAWRENCE DURRELL Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
LAWRENCE DURRELL For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in...
LAWRENCE DURRELL Don't set compensation as a goal. Find work you like, and the compensation will follow.
HARDING LAWRENCE It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdy that you can ...
LAWRENCE DURRELL Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your hear...
LAWRENCE BIXBY Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British wha...
LAWRENCE DURRELL A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.
LAWRENCE DURRELL No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
LAWRENCE DURRELL There is something brittle in me that will break before it bends. Perhaps if the [the enemy] had bro...
MARK LAWRENCE Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them...
LAWRENCE DURRELL There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, ...
ELIZABETH LAWRENCE Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your hear...
LAWRENCE BIXBY Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more sui...
LAWRENCE BLOCK Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
D.H. LAWRENCE We must do our business faithfully, without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to God mildly, a...
BROTHER LAWRENCE We need not feel ashamed of flirting with the zodiac. The zodiac is well worth flirting with.
D.H. LAWRENCE Watch your thoughts, for they become words.Watch your words, for they become actions.Watch your acti...
LAWRENCE BLOCK Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your he...
LAWRENCE BIXBY You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off...
D.H. LAWRENCE All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake i...
T.E. LAWRENCE I am just going outside and may be some time.
LAWRENCE OATES We must do our business faithfully, without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to God mildly,...
BROTHER LAWRENCE To have respect for ourselves guides our morals; and to have a deference for others governs our mann...
LAWRENCE STERNE I value my integrity. Which is why it has a price.
MARK LAWRENCE New WikiLeaks-provided e-mails from Clinton aide Doug Band reveal the true nature of the Clinton cas...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been ...
LAWRENCE KOHLBERG I have been accused of allegedly giving up my free-market principles in supporting some of Donald Tr...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW I had one of those light bulb 'a ha' moments while screening 'Good Will Hunting' in ...
LAWRENCE BENDER Does anybody remember, back in the depths of the recession of 1981-82, how President Reagan kept his...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW Conversation didn't seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady aroun...
LAWRENCE WELK I knew nothing of the real life of a musician, but I seemed to see myself standing in front of great...
LAWRENCE WELK Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.
LAWRENCE DURRELL A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants.
LAWRENCE DURRELL I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.
LAWRENCE DURRELL It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you...
LAWRENCE DURRELL Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with...
LAWRENCE DURRELL The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love l...
LAWRENCE DURRELL Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.
LAWRENCE DURRELL Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
LAWRENCE DURRELL For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in...
LAWRENCE DURRELL I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.
LAWRENCE DURRELL I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two compani...
LAWRENCE DURRELL Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
LAWRENCE DURRELL History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
LAWRENCE DURRELL It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
LAWRENCE DURRELL Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.
LAWRENCE DURRELL We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which ...
LAWRENCE DURRELL Everything from airplanes to kitchen blenders and even chopsticks comes with an instruction manual. ...
LAWRENCE KUTNER I just kind of opened up and said, 'I feel like a rag doll. I have hair and makeup people coming...
JENNIFER LAWRENCE Technology has already opened the door a bit wider for filmmakers, with smaller digital cameras maki...
SHARON LAWRENCE The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial...
LAWRENCE SUMMERS Used as kites, these rigid stable aeroplanes are superior to the very best cellular kites I can make...
LAWRENCE HARGRAVE You might see some of the movies that I'm in where there are shades of drama or whatever, but fo...
MARTIN LAWRENCE I try to always step up to the plate, be professional, be good at what I'm doing and deliver on ...
MARTIN LAWRENCE To each his own. You like what you like. If you want someone who's big-boned and you like that, ...
MARTIN LAWRENCE If you want someone who's big-boned and you like that, ain't nothing wrong with having a lit...
MARTIN LAWRENCE