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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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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 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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If you're too open-minded your brains will fall out.
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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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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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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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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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I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder
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Make your mind learn its way around the heart.
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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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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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Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.
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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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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 am waiting for the lost music to sound again in a new rebirth of wonder.
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I feel there is an angel in me' she'd say 'whom I am constantly shocking
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