We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.

His father Carlo Ferlinghetti was born in Brescia Italy in March 14 1872. Orban is curtailing civil liberties and freedom of speech for the people of Hungary. Eliot Ezra Pound e.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti (born March 24 1919) is an American poet painter liberal activist and the co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & PubliLawrence Ferlinghettirs. Author of poetry translations fiction theatre art criticism and film narration he is best known for A Coney Island of the Mind (1958) a collection of poems that has been translated into nine languages with sales of over one million copies.