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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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 youLawrence Ferlinghetti
There won't be any changes until we have another depression like in the 1930s, which we have not approached yet in the present recession.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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.
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They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of huge conglomerates.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I guess we all could have been put in jail for that. Do you think the statute of limitations has expired
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