“Most of my poems are written to women because women are most inspiring. Who are most artists? Men. Who do they get inspired by? Women. The masculinity in me gets inspired by the female. I fall in love with men and they take me over. I ain’t no women’s lib chick. So I can’t write about a man, because I’m under his thumb, but a woman I can be male with. I can use her as my muse. I use women.” – Patti Smith
“I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence’.” -Susan Sontag
