What did Lawrence Ferlinghetti mean by: Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations. - Lawrence Ferlinghetti Poet Copy
+ Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Culture, Opposites, 0 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti Poet
+ If you’re too open-minded; your brains will fall out. Feraz Zeid, October 17, 2023December 26, 2023, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Funny, Sarcastic, Witty, 0 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti Poet
+ Beauty stands and waits with gravity to start her death-defying leap Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Beauty, Defying, Waiting, 0 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti Poet
+ Make your mind learn its way around the heart. Feraz Zeid, September 24, 2023December 26, 2023, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Heart, Mind, 0 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti Poet
+ The state of the world calls out for poetry to save it. Feraz Zeid, July 27, 2023December 12, 2023, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 0 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti Poet
+ Invent a new language anyone can understand. Feraz Zeid, October 6, 2023December 26, 2023, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Creation, Language, 0 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti Poet
+ the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making. Feraz Zeid, January 14, 2024January 14, 2024, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Poet, Rhyming, Wire, 0 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti Poet
+ I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Wonder, 0 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti Poet
Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination. - George Henry Lewes Philosopher and literary critic · England
The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue. - William Cowper Poet · England
The machinations of ambiguity are among the very roots of poetry. - William Empson Poet and literary critic · England
Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination. - William Hazlitt Essayist · England
All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things. - Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
