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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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Almost every truly creative being alienated & expatriated in his own country
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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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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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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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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 is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.
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My country tears of thee.
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We were just a one-room bookstore we didn't have any money for lawyers.
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I am waiting for the lost music to sound again in a new rebirth of wonder.
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Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.
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We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.
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