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If you're too open-minded your brains will fall out.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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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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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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They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves.
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Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.
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Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.
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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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As I get older I perceive Life has its tail in its mouth.
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There is an ecstatic mechanism in birds that makes them fly upwards in spite of worms.
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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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I'd ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a passing fad. It's got to go. It's got to go a long way from here.
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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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I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder
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I am waiting for the lost music to sound again in a new rebirth of wonder.
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My country tears of thee.
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Almost every truly creative being alienated & expatriated in his own country
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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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If you would be a poet, write living newspapers. Be a reporter from outer space, filing dispatches to some supreme managing editor who believes in full disclosure and has a low tolerance for bullshit.
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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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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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Make your mind learn its way around the heart.
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