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" No, I didn't become disenchanted. I just couldn't paint like them. "
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Paint
Them
Become
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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
High
Own
Absurdity
" I'd ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a passing fad. It's got to go. It's got to go a long way from here. "
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
See
City
Way
" It's the story of an American who wants to become a dictator and goes to Europe with a sidekick to interview various Fascists to find out how the Nazis and Mussolini got into power. "
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Story
American
Find
" Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately. "
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Freedom Of Speech
Which
World
" The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all 'bottom line' editors; everything depends on the money. "
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Real
Fired
Everything
" Well, I didn't know how to draw very well back then, in the '40s and '50s. "
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Then
Well
Know
" The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem. "
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Look
Effort
Painting
" I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope. "
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Depression
Think
Hope
" They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves. "
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Looking
Stable
Ourselves
" It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something. "
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Image
Visual
Than
" And the Blue Angels are coming back to scare the local population. I remember seeing old Vietnamese women ducking under the benches in Washington Square; they thought they were back in the war. "
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Remember
Women
War
" These are international criminals, and the spineless Democrats are doing nothing about it. "
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Nothing
International
Doing
" 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
Way
World
Change The World
" I am waiting for them to prove that God is really American. "
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Prove
Waiting
I Am
" Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back. "
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Him
Back
Feel
" I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century. "
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Wonderful
Reading
Last
" Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today. "
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Opposite
Everything
Culture
" We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn't have any money for lawyers. "
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Bookstore
Any
Lawyers
" Southern California, where the American Dream came too true. "
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
True
Dream
American Dream
" 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
Future
Lies
New York