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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.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Age: 101 †
Born: 1919
Born: March 24
Died: 2021
Died: February 22
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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 feel there is an angel in me' she'd say 'whom I am constantly shocking
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