Communism wasn't a word that I thought of when I went to Cuba. The original Fidelistas were not Communists. They were graduate students at the university and law students. After the Fidelistas took over, they went to Washington and tried to get support from the U.S. government, which turned them down. They were in a desperate political and economic situation, so they took the offer from the Soviet Union. Communism was a matter of necessity.
Lawrence FerlinghettiThere is an ecstatic mechanism in birds that makes them fly upwards in spite of worms.
Lawrence FerlinghettiWe have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti