Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them. ✨…

Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them. ✨ Lawrence Ferlinghetti (2007). Poetry as Insurgent Art, p.38, New Directions Publishing
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We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings. ✨ Lawrence Ferlinghetti (2001). San Francisco Poems, p.2, City Lights Books
Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations. ✨ Lawrence Ferlinghetti (2007). Poetry as Insurgent Art, p.50, New Directions Publishing
I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.
My country tears of thee. ✨ Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1958). A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems, p.57, New Directions Publishing
The state of the world calls out for poetry to save it. ✨ Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Poetry as Insurgent Art [I am signaling you through the flames]

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