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I’m not really a nostalgic person.

Patti Smith

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 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
I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.
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Laureate Long Poet
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
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
To be an artist – actually, to be a human being in these times – it’s all difficult. … What matters is to know what you want and pursue it.
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Actual Artist Human Matters
I think it’s important for people to realize that we were all young, all naive, and also we had lived in a time that had magic.
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Live Magic Naive People Think
My father came a couple of times, but he always blamed his hearing loss on my loud amplifiers. So he didn’t come anymore, but I had his support.
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Couple Father Loss
Should I pursue a path so twisted? Should I crawl defeated and gifted?
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Path Questions Twisted Unanswered
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
All I’ve ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.
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Children Want Wonderful
You can’t work on that scale without trust. I learned that from working with Robert Mapplethorpe.
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Good Scales Trust Zipper
Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.
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Mortals Poetry Remember
I started resenting how much art robs from life. I’d go to a party and I couldn’t enjoy myself, even sexually. All I could think was how I was going to reinvent the experience into a piece of art.
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Art Piece Sexually Thinking
Writing is not some quiet, closet act.
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Closets Quiet Writing
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

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