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Everybody’s got to reclaim these thingspoetry, rock’n’roll, political activismand it’s got to be done over and over again. It’s like eating: you can’t say,’Oh, I ate yesterday’.You have to eat again.

Patti Smith

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.
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First Jesus Record
Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents.
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Adventure Design Fate
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.
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Believe Hand Mind
Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe, love is a banquet on which we feed.
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Fire Love Romantic
I’ve always had a desire to write something and capture people’s imagination like Peter Pan had captured mine.
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Imagination People Writing
I was never a singer, I can’t play any instruments, I had no training. Plus, I was brought up in a time when all the great rock stars were male. I didn’t have any template for what I was doing. I did what I did out of frustration and concern.
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Frustration Rock Star
I’m not really a nostalgic person.
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Nostalgic Person Really
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
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
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’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.
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Around Dawn Roaming World
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
Trust is everything between two artists, or between subject and artist. You have to have trust or nothing good will come out of it.
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Artist Nothing Subject Two
Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.
PATTI SMITH

Mortals Poetry Remember

Everybody’s got to reclaim these thingspoetry, rock’n’roll, political activismand it’s got to be done over and over again. It’s like eating: you can’t say,’Oh, I ate yesterday’.You have to eat again.

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Everybody’s got to reclaim these thingspoetry, rock’n’roll, political activismand it’s got to be done over and over again. It’s like eating: you can’t say,’Oh, I ate yesterday’.You have to eat again.

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