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
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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.
- 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.
- Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.
- Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do.
- I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope.