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I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder
-Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder
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I have been interested in the 12th century since my 20s when it was very fashionable to say of anybody with whom you disagreed, which was basically anybody over the age of 30, "one of the great minds of the 12th century", and one day i thought, "i don't know anything about the 12 century." so i started buying books, reading about it, and i discovered it was a period of great flowering, it was a renaissance before what we think is the renaissance, the italian renaissance of the 16th century.
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