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Patti Smith

"When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep."

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"When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep."

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Donna Grant

"You need a poetic touch from the outer space? Then you need the moonlight!"

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Donna Grant

"I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty."

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Donna Grant

"Good poetry does not exist merely for the sake of itself, but rather, is a byproduct of yearning and growth; great poetry canonizes that yearning for the growth of others."

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Donna Grant

"The secret of poetry is never explained - is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, & the eternity it inherits. In every house a child that in mere play utters oracles, & knows not that they are such. 'Tis as easy as breath. 'Tis like this gravity, which holds the Universe together, & none knows what it is."

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Donna Grant

"The crown of literature is poetry."

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Donna Grant

"A poem can't do its work if you only read snippets of it."

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Donna Grant

"The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly."

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Donna Grant

"Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry."

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Donna Grant

"From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be."

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Donna Grant

"One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose."

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Patti Smith
"I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife."

Mother

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Patti Smith
"Horses pretty much broke as a record in England."

England

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Patti Smith
"Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire."

Desire

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Patti Smith
"First of all, anybody who has lasted 30 and went through the 60's is really a survivor."

First

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Patti Smith
"My mother answers all my fan mail."

Mother

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Patti Smith
"Maybe I'll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris."

Paris

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Patti Smith
"Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the handwriting and then the look of the handwriting."

Time

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Patti Smith
"Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand."

Suffering

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Patti Smith
"Everyone thinks of God as a man - you can't help it - Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to be a man."

God

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Patti Smith
"As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag."

Being

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