Quote by Patti Smith
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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Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo – Jo being the writer and the misfit. – Patti Smith

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Women
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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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The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means sacrifice or some difficult times. – Patti Smith

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good
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Other Quotes from
Poetry
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Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born. – Daisaku Ikeda

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Poetry

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, its the exact opposite. – Paul Dirac

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Poetry

I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up. – Keith Haring

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Poetry

It is the hour to be drunken! Be drunken, if you would not be martyred slaves of Time; be drunken continually! With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. – Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867), “Be Drunken,” translated from French by Arthur

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Poetry

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A lie may take care of the present, but it has no future. – Author Unknown

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Honesty

If youre a Christian you dont sit there and worry about what somebody else is doing, if theyre happy and theyre committed in a relationship. – Howard Stern

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relationship

There is nothing I love more than my role as a mom. – Jennifer Hudson

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mom

Music can change the world because it can change people. – Bono

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Change