Poets, come out of your closets, Open your windows, open your doors, You have been holed up too long in your closed worlds... Poetry should transport the public/to higher places/than other wheels can carry it.
Lawrence FerlinghettiI didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away.
Lawrence FerlinghettiWe have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti