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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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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Age: 101 †
Born: 1919
Born: March 24
Died: 2021
Died: February 22
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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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We were just a one-room bookstore we didn't have any money for lawyers.
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