Patti Smith
from “notebook” in Early Work 1970-1979
[after a number of lines exploring what it means to be american]
Freedom is a waterfall, is pacing
linoleum till dawn, is the right to
write the wrong words. and I done
plenty of that …april 1971
For the longest time I carried with me a misquotation of the passage: I conceived the right to write the wrong words as being singular — the right to write the wrong word — supplemented by the right to review and correct …
And so for day 2998
25.02.2015