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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Age: 101 †
Born: 1919
Born: March 24
Died: 2021
Died: February 22
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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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The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of huge conglomerates.
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Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.
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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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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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I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder
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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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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 feel there is an angel in me' she'd say 'whom I am constantly shocking
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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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As I get older I perceive Life has its tail in its mouth.
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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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Make your mind learn its way around the heart.
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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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There is an ecstatic mechanism in birds that makes them fly upwards in spite of worms.
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Poetry must be capable of answering the challenge of apocalytpic times, even if this means sounding apocaltypic.
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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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Recipe For Happiness Khaborovsk Or Anyplace' One grand boulevard with trees with one grand cafe in sun with strong black coffee in very small cups. One not necessarily very beautiful man or woman who loves you. One fine day.
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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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