Ferlinghetti Coney Quotes

#1. Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.

Jorge Luis Borges

#2. You and me could really exist
pg. 22// // A Coney Island of the Mind

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#3. History shows that there is no more potent engine for reform than the passion of voters who feel betrayed by the politicians they hoped would do the right thing.

Michael Moritz

#4. Is where I first/ fell in love/ with unreality
pg. 35// A Coney Island of the Mind

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#5. I have dreamt that all my teeth fell out but my tongue lived to tell the tale
pg. 65// A Coney Island of the Mind

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#6. Blink at the sunned scratch
and stumble into silence
pg. 55// A Coney Island of the Mind

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#7. Telling over to myself/ how beauty never dies/ but lies apart/ among the aborigines/ of art/ and far above the battlefields/ of love
pg. 23// // A Coney Island of the Mind

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#8. Her eyes downcast all the while/ and singing to herself
pg. 18// A Coney Island of the Mind

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#9. I flew too near the sun
and my wax wings fell off
pg. 62// A Coney Island of the Mind

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#10. And heard the green birds singing/ from the other side of silence
pg. 36// A Coney Island of the Mind

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#11. What I had later learned was that the FBI knew I was going to New York a couple days after the raid.

Sherman Austin

#12. And I am waiting/ for Alice in Wonderland/ to retransmit to me/ her total dream of innocence
pg. 52// A Coney Island of the Mind

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#13. Over-population is a phenomenon connected with the survival of the unfit, and it is a mechanism which has created conditions favourable to the survival of the unfit and the elimination of the fit.

William Ralph Inge

#14. Beauty stands and waits
with gravity
to start her death-defying leap

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#15. And balancing on eye beams/ above a sea of faces/ paces his way/ to the other side of day
pg. 30// // A Coney Island of the Mind

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#16. It is important to remind young people that peace is the only victory.

Scarlett Johansson

#17. Watching the world walk by
in its curious shoes
pg. 61// A Coney Island of the Mind

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#18. Souls dance undressed/ together/ and like loiterers/ on the fringes of a fair/ we ogle the unobtainable/ imagined mystery/ Yet away around on the far side/ like a stage door of a circus tent/ is a wide vent in the battlements/ where even elephants/ waltz thru
pg. 31// A Coney Island of the Mind

Lawrence Ferlinghetti