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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Age: 101 †
Born: 1919
Born: March 24
Died: 2021
Died: February 22
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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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I feel there is an angel in me' she'd say 'whom I am constantly shocking
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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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I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away.
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Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.
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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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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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Poetry must be capable of answering the challenge of apocalytpic times, even if this means sounding apocaltypic.
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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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Make your mind learn its way around the heart.
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Almost every truly creative being alienated & expatriated in his own country
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My country tears of thee.
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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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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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