“Every great poem fulfills a longing and puts life back together,” he wrote in a “non-lecture” after being awarded the Poetry Society of America’s Frost Medal in 2003. A poem, he added, “should arise to ecstasy somewhere between speech and song.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/obituaries/lawrence-ferlinghetti-dead.html
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