"He has a gift for helping you hear what needs to be said... His high points are the poems that you wish you could listen to in a car, on a long coastal highway with the windows rolled down."
- Jeff Gordinier - The New York Times,
"A brave man and a brave poet."
- Bob Dylan,
"Ferlinghetti is a national treasure, and his voice has become part of our collective conscience. Ferlinghetti is the foremost chronicler of our times, continually in the front lines."
- Library Journal,
"Lawrence gets you laughing, then hits you with the truth."
- Francis Ford Coppola,
"Combining a Whitmanesque celebration of the earthy with a nod to the surrealist tradition, Ferlinghetti blasted his way into public consciousness with the 1958 publication of <em>A Coney Island of the Mind</em>, marking him as one of the Beat poets, though his more refined poetic sensibility showed just how different he was from what ‘Beat’ came to mean."
- Publishers Weekly,