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Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.

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 am waiting for the lost music to sound again in a new rebirth of wonder.
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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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I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder
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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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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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As I get older I perceive Life has its tail in its mouth.
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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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We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.
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