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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
Tags: high, own, like, death

Other Quotes by "Lawrence Ferlinghetti"

It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something.
— Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Tags: visual, than, something, image
Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.
— Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Tags: american, dream, true, american-dream
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
Tags: way, change-the-world, world, change
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.
— Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Tags: realize, who, dark, government
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
Tags: small, big, new, future
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