"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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Strength
More From Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- "Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately."
- "I think if there’s a great depression there might be some hope."
- "We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace."
More In Strength
- "Usually I write about what I care about, which is a weakness but I think also a strength."― Mickey Kaus
- "Base Ball, to be played thoroughly, requires the possession of muscular strength, great agility, quickness of eye, readiness of hand, and many other faculties of mind and body that mark the man of nerve."― Henry Chadwick
- "The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength."― Robert Shea