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- Birth nameLawrence Monsanto Ferling
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti was born on March 24, 1919 in Yonkers, New York, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for Camera Three (1954), Tonight in Person (1963) and United States of Poetry (1995). He was married to Selden Kirby-Smith. He died on February 22, 2021 in San Francisco, California, USA.
- SpouseSelden Kirby-Smith(1951 - 1976) (divorced, 2 children)
- His father, who died before he was born, had changed his family name from Ferlinghetti to Ferling after arriving in America.
- His ex-wife was the granddaughter of Edmund Kirby-Smith, the last Confederate General to surrender in the Civil War.
- Perhaps there is no meaning there is only existing just as a poem or a painting does not mean but Is and there are only episodes that don't add up to any meaning but exert in themselves the pith of living.
- Oh for a little erectile dysfunction before the earth bursts its latitudinals with overpopulation the spaceship earth overloaded and no end to the eternal rutting and breeding a primeval instinct that will not be denied and no politician dare touch it and don't tell me I can't have a baby.
- I was all the mad wandering tattered poets rolled into one sleeping under the bridges of the world. I met all the other great writers and poets and articulators of consciousness.
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