Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes about War

All Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes Art Country Culture Today Waiting War quotes Writing

I am waiting for the war to be fought which will make the world safe for anarchy

I am waiting for the war to be fought which will make the world safe for anarchy

War, Waiting, World

Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1994). “These are My Rivers: New & Selected Poems, 1955-1993”, p.101, New Directions Publishing

Western Civilization has been in a state of decline since the Edwardian age, say 1910. That was the height of Greco-Roman European civilization. Then there was the First World War. That was the beginning of the end. That civilization has been in a decline ever since. But from the American triumphalist point of view our wonderful electronic revolution is really the forefront of an ongoing wonderful civilization.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

War, Age, World

Source: www.guernicamag.com

I arrived in San Francisco in January 1951. After the Second World War, the population was so uprooted. Soldiers came back home for brief periods and took off again. So the population was very fluid, and suddenly it was as if the continent tilted west. The whole population slid west. It took 10 years for America to coalesce into a new culture. And the new culture happened in San Francisco, not New York.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

New York, War, Home

Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 1, 2012.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes about War

You May Also Like: