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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What I really like is an intelligent review. It doesnt have to be positive. A review that has some kind of insight, and sometimes people say something thats startling or is so poignant. – Patti Smith

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positive
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Ive always looked the same. Since I was a child, I hated having to deal with my hair. I hated having to change my clothes. As a kid, I had a sailor shirt and the same old corduroy pants, and thats what I wanted to wear everyday. – Patti Smith

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Change
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I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasnt vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords. – Patti Smith

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Poetry
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What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry. – Laurie Lee

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Poetry

One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way. – Paul Muldoon

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Poetry

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Poetry

That is what I did with Jack, and thats why he liked to do the readings with me because he knew I was there for him, and for our ability to blend the poetry and the music. – David Amram

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Poetry

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Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic. – Lorna Luft

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Death

Let no one who loves be unhappy… even love unreturned has its rainbow.& – James Matthew Barrie

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Broken Hearts

The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as shown in the following stories. – Daisaku Ikeda

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Bygone troubles are good to tell. – Yiddish Proverb

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