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Writing is not some quiet, closet act.

Patti Smith

Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.
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Mortals Poetry Remember
I’m not really a nostalgic person.
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Nostalgic Person Really
I’ve always considered myself a writer.
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Always Consider Myself Writer
A good artist’s always got his hand in his zipper.
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Artist Hand Zipper
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
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.
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Limelight Long Need People Perform
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
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
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 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
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
Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe, love is a banquet on which we feed.
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Fire Love Romantic
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 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
The two things that constantly inspired me were books and travel.
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Book Inspired Two
I was quite an insomniac. I rarely slept as a child. Having God to talk to at night was nice.
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Children Nice Night

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