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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
American Poet
Born: Mar 24, 1919
About American Back Become Just World
Related authors: Edgar Allan Poe Emily Dickinson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Maya Angelou Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost T. S. Eliot Walt Whitman
Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making. Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Death Poet Own High Constantly Above High Wire Risking Wire He Absurdity Heads Like Performs Audience Making Climbs His Whenever Rhyme
Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately. Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Freedom World Freedom Of Speech Mentality Attack Parts Always Exists Unfortunately Which Fascist Speech
We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace. Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Change World Change The World Way General Only Poets Populace Consciousness Raise
It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something. Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Easier Visual Visual Image Something Consume Read Than Much Image
I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century. Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Book Wonderful Reading Brooks About Century Painter Early Last Last Century
It's the story of an American who wants to become a dictator and goes to Europe with a sidekick to interview various Fascists to find out how the Nazis and Mussolini got into power. Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Power Become Interview Sidekick Out Mussolini Find Various Got How Dictator American Goes Wants Story Who Europe Fascists
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. Lawrence Ferlinghetti
You Long Way City See Fad Part Long Way Got Passing Go Ban Just Automobile Automobiles Central Here
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. Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Time Every Every Time Back Books Bookstore Bookstores Sign Independent Telling See Some He Feel Like Him Read His Author Patronize Chain
The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all 'bottom line' editors; everything depends on the money. Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Money Everything Those Remain Fired Bottom Bottom Line Mostly Editors Real Line Been Depends Literary
They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves. Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Looking Ourselves Fact Were Very Stable In Fact
Well, I didn't know how to draw very well back then, in the '40s and '50s. Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Back Draw Know Well How Very Then
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. Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Government Dark Saw States Would Atomic Nagasaki Been Anyone Realize Who Suddenly United United States United States Government Bombs Kept
No, I didn't become disenchanted. I just couldn't paint like them. Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Become Like Disenchanted Just Them Paint
We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn't have any money for lawyers. Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Money Bookstore Lawyers Were Any Just
Southern California, where the American Dream came too true. Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Too Dream True California Came Southern Southern California American American Dream Where

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