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There is an ecstatic mechanism in birds that makes them fly upwards in spite of worms.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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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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As I get older I perceive Life has its tail in its mouth.
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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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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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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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We were just a one-room bookstore we didn't have any money for lawyers.
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If you're too open-minded your brains will fall out.
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Poets, come out of your closets, Open your windows, open your doors, You have been holed up too long in your closed worlds... Poetry should transport the public/to higher places/than other wheels can carry it.
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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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They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves.
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Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.
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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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Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.
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I feel there is an angel in me' she'd say 'whom I am constantly shocking
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For even bad poetry has relevance for what it does not say for what it leaves out.
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We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.
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In Goya's greatest scenes we seem to see the people of the world exactly at the moment when they first attained the title of 'suffering humanity
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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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I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.
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