When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep.

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When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep. - Patti Smith

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Name: Patti Smith
Born: 30 December 1946
Profession: Musician | Author | Poet |

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When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep.

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Patti Smith quotes

Author's Biography:
Name: Patti Smith
Born: 30 December 1946
Profession: Musician | Author | Poet |

Related Authors
Gene Simmons | Andy Biersack | Anthony Kiedis | Anton Szandor LaVey | Elvis Costello | Andrea Bocelli | Arianna Huffington | Arundhati Roy |

The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.

Making love is, simply put, poetry in motion.

Live and think like a poor man and you'll always be OK.

What we know is everything, it is our limit, of what we can be.

As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.

I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Expect the unexpected in the kingdom of madness!

If only fire could talk, it would tell the stories of those that lit it!

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

You may have lost interest in the pandemic. It has not lost interest in you.

Life is like a roller coaster, live it, be happy, enjoy life.

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When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep.

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Patti Smith quotes

Author's Biography: Name: Patti Smith Born: 30 December 1946 Profession: Musician | Author | Poet |

Related Authors Gene Simmons | Andy Biersack | Anthony Kiedis | Anton Szandor LaVey | Elvis Costello | Andrea Bocelli | Arianna Huffington | Arundhati Roy |

The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.

Making love is, simply put, poetry in motion.

Live and think like a poor man and you'll always be OK.

What we know is everything, it is our limit, of what we can be.

As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.

I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Expect the unexpected in the kingdom of madness!

If only fire could talk, it would tell the stories of those that lit it!

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

You may have lost interest in the pandemic. It has not lost interest in you.

Life is like a roller coaster, live it, be happy, enjoy life.

When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep. - Avril Lavigne quotes

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.

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Author's Biography:
Name: Patti Smith
Born: 30 December 1946
Profession: Musician | Author | Poet |

Related Authors
Gene Simmons | Andy Biersack | Anthony Kiedis | Anton Szandor LaVey | Elvis Costello | Andrea Bocelli | Arianna Huffington | Arundhati Roy |