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“Multitude, solitude: equal and interchangeable terms for the active and prolific poet.”

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Author:Charles Baudelaire

“The saying, "The Magyar is much too lazy to be bored," is worth thinking about. Only the most subtle and active animals are capable of boredom.--A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.”

Thinking Would Be Animal Creation Poet Capable Active Bored Boredom Theme Lazy Subtle Maxims Great Poet

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“The way our big cities change sucks. The beauty of cities was that they were edgy, sometimes even a little dangerous. Artists, poets, and activists could come and unify and create different kinds of scenes. Not just fashion scenes, scenes that were politically active. Big cities are getting so high-end oriented, business corporate fashion, fashion not in an artistic sense but in a corporate sense. For me that edgy beauty of cities is lost, wherever you go.”

Way Kind Littles Different Ends Sometimes Bigs Artist Lost Cities Fashion Dangerous Poet Scene Active Artistic Corporate Activist Different Kinds Edgy Big Cities

Author:Patti Smith

“To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.”

Black Rocks Students Poet Friends My Friends Performances Feminist Active Professors Punk Mistaken Punk Rock Marxist Anti-american Leather Jackets Dreams From My Father

Book:Dreams From My Father

Source: Dreams From My Father