American - Poet | March 24, 1919 -
The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all 'bottom line' editors; everything depends on the money.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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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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Well, I didn't know how to draw very well back then, in the '40s and '50s.
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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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It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something.
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No, I didn't become disenchanted. I just couldn't paint like them.
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We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn't have any money for lawyers.
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I am waiting for them to prove that God is really American.
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Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.
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Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today.
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