silence

Something extra beautiful about having the time and space to spend swimming through the life and death of every individual sound.

Jack Kerouac, Mexico City Blues

Jan Zwicky, SONGS FOR RELINQUISHING THE EARTH

Emily Dickinson strikes

“As an artist, she is totally and utterly informed by writers like Arthur Rimbaud, Allen Ginsberg, Albert Camus and countless others who inspired a young Smith to leave her hometown and seek out a poetic lifestyle. Whether she’s referencing her seemingly encyclopedic knowledge of classic works, drawing links to the beat generation she caught the tail end of, or even reworking her own poetry into song, almost every Patti Smith song has a connection to literature somewhere. “