Poets, come out of your closets, Open your windows, open your doors, You have been holed up too long in your closed worlds... Poetry should transport the public/to higher places/than other wheels can carry it.
Lawrence FerlinghettiWe have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.
Lawrence FerlinghettiPoetry must be capable of answering the challenge of apocalytpic times, even if this means sounding apocaltypic.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti