"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
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Wisdom
More From Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- "I think if there’s a great depression there might be some hope."
- "Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately."
- "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."
More In Wisdom
- "If you’re trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I’ve had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."― Michael Jordan
- "I mean, the part you don’t like, I mean, that’s the only part. That’s the part no one likes, and that is the criticisms, and the unfair criticisms, I might add, of my husband. But that’s also just a fact of life in politics."― Laura Bush
- "Most of Roosevelt’s innovations have been the law of the land for 70 years now, and yet we are still a free society free enough, that is, to allow tens of thousands of protesters to gather on the National Mall and to broadcast their slogans and speeches to the world via C-SPAN."― Thomas Frank