Poetry can change the world, just like any art can change the world, by changing consciousness. Of course … - Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Poetry can change the world, just like any art can change the world, by changing consciousness. Of course this was the great slogan of the nineteen sixites hippies’ revolution—enlarge the area of consciousness, which quite often was done by psychedelic means.

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