All Patti Smith Quotes
- Sometimes I just wanted to raise my hands and stop. But stop what? Maybe just growing up. Growing
- A writer, or any artist, can’t expect to be embraced by the people [but] you just keep doing your work - because you have to,… Any
- Life isn't some vertical or horizontal line -- you have your own interior world, and it's not neat. Horizontal
- We need a new cosmology. New gods. New sacraments. Another drink. Another Drink
- Grief isn't all tears. All
- My mission is to communicate, to wake people up, to give them my energy and accept theirs. We're all in it together, and I respond… Accept
- I wasn't attractive, I wasn't very verbal, I wasn't very smart in school. I wasn't anything that showed the world I was something special, but… All
- An artist wears his work in place of wounds. Artist
- I know fashion is a material thing, but we live in a material world and I love clothes. Clothes
- My small torrent of words dissipated into an elaborate sense of expanding and receding. It was my entrance into the radiance of imagination. This process… All
- One day we’ll go in together, and the work will be ours. Day
- Deep in my heart how the presence of you shines, in a light to last a whole life through. Deep
- Pissing in a river, watching it rise. Egotism
- Pollution is a necessary result of the inability of man to reform and transform waste. Activism
- Love is an angel disguised as lust. Angel
- I remember when you were born, it was dawn and the storm settled near my belly. And I rolled in the grass and spit out… Balls
- The hand above turns those leaves of loves, all in all a timeless view. Each dream of life flung from paradise everlasting, ever new. All
- We believe we will raise the sky, we got to fly over the land, over the sea. Fate unwinds and if we die, souls arise.… Arise
- The people have the power to redeem the work of fools. Upon the meek the graces shower, it's decreed the people rule. Decreed
- Acknowledge all man as fellow creation, but don't follow him. Acknowledge
- I gave you a wrist watch, baby, and you wouldn't even give me the time of day. Baby
- Wisdom was a teapot, pouring from above. Desolation angels, served it up with love. Angel
- These are the times, the times of our own, these are the shapes the world we formed. Formed
- Words are just rules and regulations to me. Inspirational
- Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe, love is a banquet on which we feed. Banquet