"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
Topic(s):
Poetry
More From Patti Smith
- "My mom loved rock ‘n roll. My father hated it. We couldn’t play it when he was around."
- "In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth."
- "I’ve always looked the same. Since I was a child, I hated having to deal with my hair. I hated having to change my clothes. As a kid, I had a sailor shirt and the same old corduroy pants, and that’s what I wanted to wear everyday."
More In Poetry
- "Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting ‘Hiawatha’ and they groan."― Erica Jong
- "All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry."― Gilbert K. Chesterton
- "Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values."― A. R. Ammons