Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an … - Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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I love strong flavors too. Like I don't mind if it looks clean and clear and you know what you are eating if it has Italian, Chinese or Japanese flavor I love them all.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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.

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Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.

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If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.

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Our government is a bird with two right wings. . . They're devoted to the perpetuation & spread of corporate capitalism.

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I was on television a couple of years ago and the reporter asked me, "How does it feel being on mainstream media? It's not often poets get on mainstream media. " I said, "Well I think you're the dominant media, the dominant culture, but you're not the mainstream media. The mainstream media is still the high culture of intellectuals: writers, readers, editors, librarians, professors, artists, art critics, poets, novelists, and people who think. They are the mainstream culture, even though you may be the dominant culture. "

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Make your mind learn its way around the heart.

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