"I certainly was surprised to be named Poet Laureate of this far-out city on the left side of the world, and I gratefully accept, for as I told the Mayor, "How could I refuse?" I'd rather be Poet Laureate of San Francisco than anywhere because this city has always been a poetic center, a frontier for free poetic life, with perhaps more poets and more poetry readers than any city in the world."

-- Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#Cities Quotes #San Francisco Quotes #World Quotes

“A list of your own making is the most powerful list of all... The good stuff can be 'love at first sight' - in need of study, courting and claiming. And like a love note, it's nice to have things in writing.”
“I've always been a teaser, even as a kid.”
“All efforts at self-transformation challenge us to engage in on-going, critical self-examination and reflection about feminist practice, and about how we live in the world. This individual commitment, when coupled with engagement in collective discussion, provides a space for critical feedback which strengthens our efforts to change and make ourselves anew.”
“I did think of becoming a priest quite late on, when other boys were thinking of knocking over fences and going out with girls. I would have made a very good bishop: nice housekeeper, nice clothes - god, the clothes.”
“Of some calamity we can have no relief but from God alone; and what would men do, in such a case if it were not for God?”
“The young woman who brought me acquainted with Captain Murderer had a fiendish enjoyment of my terrors, and used to begin, I remember - as a sort of introductory overture - by clawing the air with both hands, and uttering a long low hollow groan. So acutely did I suffer from this ceremony in combination with this infernal Captain, that I sometimes used to plead I thought I was hardly strong enough and old enough to hear the story again just yet.”
“This guy goes to a psychiatrist and says, Doc, my brotherâ€™s crazy. He thinks heâ€™s a chicken. The doctor says, Well, why donâ€™t you turn him in? And the guy says, I would but I need the eggs. Well I guess thatâ€™s pretty much how I feel about relationships. You know theyâ€™re totally irrational and crazy and absurd but I guess we keep going through it because, uh, most of us need the eggs.”
“Women suffer more from disappointment than men, because they have more of faith and are naturally more credulous.”

Source : "Edge-tools of speech". Book by Maturin Murray Ballou, 1899.

You may also like: