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Quote by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
We have to raise the consciousness the only way poets can change t

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

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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

Category:
Death
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that theyd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do. – Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Category:
Government
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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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

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Freedom
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Other Quotes from
Change
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A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea. – John Ciardi

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Change

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Change

Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas. – Edward de Bono

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Change

There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and forty-eight. – Ezra Pound

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Change

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If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes. – Michelangelo

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