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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Age: 101 †
Born: 1919
Born: March 24
Died: 2021
Died: February 22
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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 have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.
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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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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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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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They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves.
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I feel there is an angel in me' she'd say 'whom I am constantly shocking
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Almost every truly creative being alienated & expatriated in his own country
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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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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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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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