Believe Quote by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“If you would be a poet, write living newspapers. Be a reporter from outer space, filing dispatches to some supreme managing editor who believes in full disclosure and has a low tolerance for bullshit.” quote by Lawrence Ferlinghetti — Download Open image

“If you would be a poet, write living newspapers. Be a reporter from outer space, filing dispatches to some supreme managing editor who believes in full disclosure and has a low tolerance for bullshit.”

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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I certainly was surprised to be named Poet Laureate of this far-out city on the left side of the world, and I gratefully accept, for as I told the Mayor, "How could I refuse?" I'd rather be Poet Laureate of San Francisco than anywhere because this city has always been a poetic center, a frontier for free poetic life, with…

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Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.

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The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all ottom line editors; everything depends on the money.

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