Carolina QuotesPoetry is the shadow cast by our imaginations.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti Connected to the Carolinas
Source
These Are My Rivers: New & Selected Poems, 1955-1993 (New Directions) ISBN: 0-0112-1273-4 0-0112-1252-1
- year
- 1955
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“Poetry is the shadow cast by our imaginations.” Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-60BC3AFC08. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/60bc3afc08
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