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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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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Age: 101 †
Born: 1919
Born: March 24
Died: 2021
Died: February 22
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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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For even bad poetry has relevance for what it does not say for what it leaves out.
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I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away.
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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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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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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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I am waiting for the lost music to sound again in a new rebirth of wonder.
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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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Almost every truly creative being alienated & expatriated in his own country
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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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Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.
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I feel there is an angel in me' she'd say 'whom I am constantly shocking
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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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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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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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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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Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.
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Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.
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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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As I get older I perceive Life has its tail in its mouth.
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