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Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes: When you're young, everything seems like a romance. At 96, I can still feel romantic about publishing young unknown writers.
         

When you're young, everything seems like a romance. At 96, I can still feel romantic about publishing young unknown writers.


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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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Our government is a bird with two right wings... They're devoted to the perpetuation & spread of corporate capitalism.



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Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.



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I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder



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I am waiting for the lost music to sound again in a new rebirth of wonder.



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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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Poetry must be capable of answering the challenge of apocalytpic times, even if this means sounding apocaltypic.



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