Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept i…

Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do.
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I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope.
I am waiting for the war to be fought which will make the world safe for anarchy ✨ Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1994). These are My Rivers: New & Selected Poems, 1955-1993, p.101, New Directions Publishing
They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves.
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]
The art has to make it on its own, without explanations, and it’s the same for poetry. If the poem or the painting has to be explained, then it’s a failure in communication.

Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do.

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