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"The pennycandystore beyond the El is where I first fell in love with unreality"
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Lawrence FerlinghettiIt was a face which darkness could kill — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"It was a face which darkness could kill in an instant"
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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Lawrence Monsanto Ferlinghetti was an American poet, painter, social activist, and co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers. An author of poetry, translations, fiction, theatre, art criticism, and film narration, Ferlinghetti was best known for his second collection of poems, A Coney Island of the Mind (1958), which has been translated into nine languages and sold over a million copies.
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"Poetry is the shadow cast by our imaginations."
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"I was the all-American boy, the Eagle Scout. I remember I was at my girlfriends apartment, and there were these strange publications like The Nation and The New Republic. I started looking at them and thought, "Gee, this is weird; people saying things against America?" It was an awakening. On the East Coast, Id never even heard of conscientious objectors."
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