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Lawrence Ferlinghetti Inspirational Quotes (37)

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Almost every truly creative being alienated & expatriated in his own country
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The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all 'bottom line' editors everything depends on the money.
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Recipe For Happiness Khaborovsk Or Anyplace' One grand boulevard with trees with one grand cafe in sun with strong black coffee in very small cups. One not necessarily very beautiful man or woman who loves you. One fine day.
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The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of huge conglomerates.
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A lot of manuscripts that come in, you wonder by what outrageous fantasy the author believes that this should be pressed into print.
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Poets, come out of your closets, Open your windows, open your doors, You have been holed up too long in your closed worlds... Poetry should transport the public/to higher places/than other wheels can carry it.
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Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.
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We were just a one-room bookstore we didn't have any money for lawyers.
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Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.
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I have a feeling I'm falling on rare occasions but most of the time I have my feet on the ground I can't help it if the ground itself is falling.
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They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves.
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For even bad poetry has relevance for what it does not say for what it leaves out.
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To say one is revolutionary is a little like saying one is a Zen Buddhist - if you say you are, you probably aren't.
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Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back.
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I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.
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Poetry must be capable of answering the challenge of apocalytpic times, even if this means sounding apocaltypic.
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In Goya's greatest scenes we seem to see the people of the world exactly at the moment when they first attained the title of 'suffering humanity
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I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder
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If you're too open-minded your brains will fall out.
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I feel there is an angel in me' she'd say 'whom I am constantly shocking
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The art has to make it on its own, without explanations, and it’s the same for poetry. If the poem or the painting has to be explained, then it’s a failure in communication.
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We have to raise the consciousness the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.
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Poetry can change the world, just like any art can change the world, by changing consciousness. Of course this was the great slogan of the nineteen sixites hippies’ revolution—enlarge the area of consciousness, which quite often was done by psychedelic means.
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In Plato's republic, poets were considered subversive, a danger to the republic. I kind of relish that role. So I see my present role as a gadfly, to use my soapbox to promote my various ideas and obsesions.
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