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I am waiting for them to prove that God is really American. (Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
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. View quote
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We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn't have any money for lawyers. View quote
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The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all "bottom line" editors; everything depends on the money. View quote
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They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves. View quote
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Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today. View quote
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I was the all-American boy, the Eagle Scout. I remember I was at my girlfriend's apartment, and there were these strange publications like The Nation and The New Republic. I started looking at them and thought, "Gee, this is weird; people saying things against America?" It was an awakening. On the East Coast, I'd never even heard of conscientious objectors. View quote
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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. View quote
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I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century. View quote
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Almost every truly creative being alienated & expatriated in his own country. View quote
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Well, I didn't know how to draw very well back then, in the '40s and '50s. (Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
The world is a beautiful place to be born into - if you don't mind some people dying all the time - or maybe only starving - some of the time which isn't half so bad - if it isn't you. View quote
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The state of the world calls out for poetry to save it. View quote
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Our government is a bird with two right wings... They're devoted to the perpetuation & spread of corporate capitalism. View quote
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Invent a new language anyone can understand. View quote
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There is an ecstatic mechanism in birds that makes them fly upwards in spite of worms. View quote
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Poetry must be capable of answering the challenge of apocalytpic times, even if this means sounding apocaltypic. View quote
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No, I didn't become disenchanted. I just couldn't paint like them. View quote
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And the Blue Angels are coming back to scare the local population. I remember seeing old Vietnamese women ducking under the benches in Washington Square; they thought they were back in the war. View quote
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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. View quote
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These are international criminals, and the spineless Democrats are doing nothing about it. (Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
Beauty stands and waits with gravity to start her death-defying leap. View quote
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I have a feeling I'm falling on rare occasions but most of the time I have my feet on the ground I can't help it if the ground itself is falling. View quote
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the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making. View quote
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This is all very nice, because the ideas that Jack and the Beat generation stood for are needed today more than ever. But I'm not so interested in nostalgia. I'm interested in the future. View quote
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