The most important of the beat poets. He was a really true poet with an original voice, probably the most lyrical of those poets. - Nancy Peters

Lawrence is usually the first poet kids read in schools that they really like. It's a real turn-on for them.

I'm looking for the binding energy of a look a crop of reflections to be reaped in a winter of thorn when icebergs of illusion will melt to be served at high tea and the spaces between the poles pinned down

The tempest unleashes an alphabet letters fall through the apertures of crazy angles to spell out the future uprooting the course of invention and enslaving the masters