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.
Lawrence FerlinghettiThey were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves.
Lawrence FerlinghettiWe have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti