The hand above turns those leaves of loves, all in all a timeless view. Each dream of life flung from paradise everlasting,… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Yet you could feel a vibration in the air, a sense of hastening. It had started with the moon, inaccessible poem that… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand, that Joplin had the last drunken throat, that Morrison had the… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
People came at me with all sorts of offers, wanting to make me into a hard-core Cher. I had no desire for… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Sometimes I just wanted to raise my hands and stop. But stop what? Maybe just growing up. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Hopefully if you create something fine, people will relate to it, so you're communicating with people, and you're not in a void.… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
We were walking toward the fountain, the epicenter of activity, when an older couple stopped and openly observed us. Robert enjoyed being… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
People wouldn't know this about me, but I adore ball gowns. I love their cut, their architecture and the thought of the… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Ms. It sounds like a sick bumblebee, it sounds frigid. I mean, who the hell would ever want to stick his hand… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
For I desired, as Youth does, to be taken by the hand and hurled into the world. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
We imagined ourselves as the Sons of Liberty with a mission to preserve, protect, and project the revolutionary spirit of rock and… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Sometimes [people] seem to think I came out of the womb, you know, cursing, with an electric guitar. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“Inside it he inscribed a few lines of poetry, portraying us as the gypsy and the fool, one creating silence; one listening closely to… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“I clawed through a thick web of the culture’s consciousness that I hadn’t known existed.” — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Ultimately, we are not seeking others to bow to, but to reinforce our individual natures, to help us suffer our own choices, to guide… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
If I'm taking a picture of Brancusi's grave, I know that there's something of him, of his mortal remains, beneath my feet, and there's… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I'm certain, as we filled down the great staircase, that I appeared the same as ever, a moping twelve years-old, all arms and legs.… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
New York is the thing that seduced me. New York is the thing that formed me. New York is the thing that deformed me.… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I don't wanna be equal with anybody. I wanna be above equal. I don't think most people are equal to me. I'd like to… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image