Most often the alchemy that produces a poem or a work
of fiction is hidden within the work itself, if not embedded
in the coiling ridges of the mind. [. . .]
[. . .] Why do we write? [. . .]
Because we cannot simply live.
~ Patty Smith
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Quoted from Patti Smith, Devotion ("Why I Write Series"), 2016 Windham-Campbell Lecture (Yale University Press, 2017), pages 27, 93
Patti Smith, Singer-Songwriter, Poet and Author, Painter, Photographer
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