“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.”
— Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Author: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Category: war
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“Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.”
— Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Author: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Category: freedom
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“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
Author: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Category: death
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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.”
— Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Author: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Category: change
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