Quote by Patti Smith
What I wanted to do in rock n roll was merge poetry with sonic sca

What I wanted to do in rock n roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who had contributed so much to that were Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison. – Patti Smith

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Im not saying I wasnt flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business. – Patti Smith

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Good news doesnt necessarily have to be a positive thing. Bringing good news is imparting hope to ones fellow man. – Patti Smith

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I dont think the Palestinian people or Afghan children or some other things Im concerned about are at the top of other peoples agendas – not right now, when America is going through such a recession and people are suffering across the board financially. But I think all that will change. – Patti Smith

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He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise. – Oscar Wilde

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You dont go after poetry, you take what comes. Maybe the gods do it through me but I certainly do a hell of a lot of the work. – Phyllis Gotlieb

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I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on. – Isaac Rosenberg

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Every single soul is a poem. – Michael Franti

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