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Write Quotes by Patti Smith
- Poetry is a solitary process. One does not write poetry for the masses. Poetry is a self-involved, lofty pursuit. Songs are for the people. When…
- Often the simplest song is the hardest to write.
- More than anything, that's been the thread through my life - the desire to write, the impulse to write. I mean, it's taken me other…
- When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write a straightforward detective…
- Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words.
- Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply.
- When I was young, all I wanted was to write books and be an artist.
- I would rather write or record something great and have it overlooked than do mediocre work and have it be popular.
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