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Writing is not some quiet, closet act.

Patti Smith

I’m okay with roaming around the world in my bunk for days on end. Maybe every third day I’ll get a shower or stumble out at dawn and realize I’m in a field in Poland. I like that kind of life.
PATTI SMITH

Around Dawn Roaming World
So my last image was as the first. A sleeping youth cloaked in light, who opened his eyes with a smile of recognition for someone who had never been a stranger.
PATTI SMITH

Eye Light Recognition Sleep
Hail brother, the distant thunder is nothing but hearts beating as one.
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Brother Distant Future Heart
I don’t know why, the very first word on my very first record is ‘Jesus.’ I still invoke him as an entity to reckon with.
PATTI SMITH

First Jesus Record
I felt alien my whole life but I didn’t feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender.
PATTI SMITH

Alien Gender People
Writing is not some quiet, closet act.
PATTI SMITH

Closets Quiet Writing
I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one.
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Artist Hungered Proof Stuff
Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe, love is a banquet on which we feed.
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Fire Love Romantic
Should I pursue a path so twisted? Should I crawl defeated and gifted?
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Path Questions Twisted Unanswered
I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust.
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Loneliness Space Understood
Trust is everything between two artists, or between subject and artist. You have to have trust or nothing good will come out of it.
PATTI SMITH

Artist Nothing Subject Two
I’ve always considered myself a writer.
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Always Consider Myself Writer
Well, I’m not one of those people who needs the limelight. If I’m performing, that’s what I’m doing. If I’m not, I don’t long for it. I don’t need the approval of an audience, or applause.
PATTI SMITH

Limelight Long Need People Perform
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
I’m a worker. I do the work to communicate, and I want people to embrace it, and when they do I’m happy.
PATTI SMITH

Communicate Embrace Need People
I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand, that Joplin had the last drunken throat, that Morrison had the last enlightened mind.
PATTI SMITH

Believe Hand Mind

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