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For even bad poetry has relevance for what it does not say for what it leaves out.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Age: 101 †
Born: 1919
Born: March 24
Died: 2021
Died: February 22
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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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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 didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away.
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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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As I get older I perceive Life has its tail in its mouth.
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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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We were just a one-room bookstore we didn't have any money for lawyers.
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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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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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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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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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Make your mind learn its way around the heart.
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My country tears of thee.
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If you're too open-minded your brains will fall out.
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Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.
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Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.
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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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There is an ecstatic mechanism in birds that makes them fly upwards in spite of worms.
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I have a feeling I'm falling on rare occasions but most of the time I have my feet on the ground I can't help it if the ground itself is falling.
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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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