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I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.

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 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
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
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 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
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.
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Eye Light Recognition Sleep
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
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
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
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’ve always considered myself a writer.
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Always Consider Myself Writer
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
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
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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Political Rock Yesterday
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’m not really a nostalgic person.
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Nostalgic Person Really

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