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Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.

Patti Smith

All I’ve ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.
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Children Want Wonderful
Vowels are the most illuminated letters in the alphabet. Vowels are the colors and souls of poetry and speech. (1976 Penthouse interview)
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Color Soul Vowel
I’m a worker. I do the work to communicate, and I want people to embrace it, and when they do I’m happy.
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Communicate Embrace Need People
The film [Dream of Life] doesn’t hide anything, except maybe moments of sorrow or darkness that belonged to me.
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Darkness Dream Sorrow
I’ve always considered myself a writer.
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Always Consider Myself Writer
Will you pretend you’re my boyfriend?
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Assume Boyfriend Hope Pretend
Writing is not some quiet, closet act.
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Closets Quiet Writing
People came at me with all sorts of offers, wanting to make me into a hard-core Cher. I had no desire for any amount of money to be reformed for someone’s vision, because in the end, that’s what you got: your clay in someone else’s hands.
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Hand People Vision
Polaroid by its nature makes you frugal. You walk around with maybe two packs of film in your pocket. You have 20 shots, so each shot is a world.
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Pocket Two World
I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.
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Laureate Long Poet
I’m not really a nostalgic person.
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Nostalgic Person Really
Even as a child, I knew what I didn’t want. I didn’t want to wear red lipstick.
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Children Lipstick Need Red
What a model of an artist was for me was an artist who worked. Picasso was the ultimate model, because the work ethic he had.
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Artist Ethic Morale Work
Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
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Fun Go Inspirational Letting
I got over the loss of his desk and chair, but never the desire to produce a string of words more precious than the emeralds of Cortés.
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Desire Emerald Loss
One day we’ll go in together, and the work will be ours.
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Day One Together Work

Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.

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