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When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I tho

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. – Patti Smith

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In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth. – Patti Smith

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The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication. – Patti Smith

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communication
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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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Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers. – James Broughton

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Poetry

The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture. – Richard Dawkins

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Poetry

I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator. – Allen Ginsberg

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Poetry

Poetry says the things that I cant say. I read a lot, but I never write it. – Trevor McDonald

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The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass. – Herman Melville

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My dads sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal – his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between. – Tony Visconti

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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts. – W. Somerset Maugham

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There are days when I wonder why my mom couldnt be here to see this. – Maya Rudolph

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