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I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Age: 101 †
Born: 1919
Born: March 24
Died: 2021
Died: February 22
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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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There is an ecstatic mechanism in birds that makes them fly upwards in spite of worms.
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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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We were just a one-room bookstore we didn't have any money for lawyers.
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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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Almost every truly creative being alienated & expatriated in his own country
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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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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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Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.
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Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.
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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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Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do.
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T.S. Eliot's influence was enormous on my generation. Much more than Ezra Pound. I actually had to put T.S. Eliot books out of the house because my poetry was so influenced. Everything I wrote sounded like Eliot.
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My country tears of thee.
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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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I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.
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If you're too open-minded your brains will fall out.
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Today America's on the wrong side of the world revolution. What I mean by that is, the world revolution is the people's revolution, the liberation movements in all the third world countries, which when everyone tries to get started the U.S. stops.
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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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