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Robert was concerned with how to make the photograph, and I with how to be the photograph.

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Patti Smith
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
Composer
Drawer
Guitarist
Human Rights Activist
Musician
Photographer
Poet
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
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Chicago
Illinois
Patricia Lee Smith
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I've always had a desire to write something and capture people's imagination like Peter Pan had captured mine.
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Artists are traditionally resistant to labels.
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Lets just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty.
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Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words.
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My style of performance poetry came from the beatniks, Allen Ginsberg.
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Wisdom was a teapot, pouring from above. Desolation angels, served it up with love.
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Finally, by the sea, where God is everywhere, I gradually calmed.
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