Ferlinghetti Coney Quotes & Sayings

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

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

Many situations in your life will re-open what's been shut off or down, forcing you to see what's been left behind and the emotions that come with that. That's natural and necessary for processing and healing. Meeting all of your experiences with resistance keeps you stuck in the past. You live and die with the closing of each chapter. — Camille Lucy

At age twenty-six, Virchow wrote passionately that terrible social conditions in an impoverished part of Germany called Upper Silesia were the cause of a malaria and dysentery epidemic. His recommendation to the German government: if it wanted to do something about the epidemic, it needed to end the malnutrition, overcrowding, and poor hygiene. Better yet, he added, allow for a full and unlimited democracy in Upper Silesia. — Tracy Kidder

Her eyes downcast all the while/ and singing to herself
pg. 18// A Coney Island of the Mind — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

When my dad came here, he came on a scholarship in the late '60s, and he went to Mississippi State. My dad is not a large man. So there's a little Taiwanese guy walking around Mississippi in, like, 1966, and I cannot imagine what that must have been like. — Kelvin Yu

Watching the world walk by
in its curious shoes
pg. 61// A Coney Island of the Mind — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Well, as I was saying ... everyone's so nice to me, usually. — Elton John

Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it. — Zoe Kazan

Beauty stands and waits
with gravity
to start her death-defying leap — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

And heard the green birds singing/ from the other side of silence
pg. 36// A Coney Island of the Mind — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

You and me could really exist
pg. 22// // A Coney Island of the Mind — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Success is waking up every day and doing what you want to do — Daymond John

If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control. — William Graham Sumner

Once you can let go of illusion and draw upon a more universal source of motivation then you will re connect with your true purpose on Earth. — Gary Markwick

Poetry is a reaching out forward expression, an effort to find fulfillment — Robert Frost

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

The only way you can truly control how you are seen is by being honest all the time. — Tom Hanks

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

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 — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Blink at the sunned scratch
and stumble into silence
pg. 55// A Coney Island of the Mind — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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

Is where I first/ fell in love/ with unreality
pg. 35// A Coney Island of the Mind — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

I should try to be strong, but baby, you're the right kind of wrong. — LeAnn Rimes