Poetry Quote by Patti Smith Download Open image ““So be we king or be we bum the reed still whistles the heart still hums”” — Patti Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry
“And yet when King Laugh come, he make them all dance to the tune he play.” — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
“Whenever I feel afraid I hold my head erect and whistle a happy tune.” — Richard Rodgers Copy Share Image
“There's music in the sighing of a reed; There's music in the gushing of a rill; There's music in all things, if men had… — George Gordon Byron Copy Share Image
“I am not going to crawl under a rock and lick my wounds, I am going to blow the whistle as loud as I… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“Hey, Reed, you have a knack for pissing me off, but when I hear your voice, I get all melty inside. Right.” — Laura Griffin Copy Share Image
“...the wind hums low with sweet exultation, sings its lullaby, while you sleep ...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“Once I realize that the tune I’m whistling in my head is the theme that’s driving my heart, I suddenly realize that the most… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The sirens droned on, a soprano counterpoint to the bombs’ relentless bass, their pitch so eerily human it sounded like every soul in London… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
“though my voice is eager to tune to marches, toady to wine and city...” — Anonymous 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
The name Phenomenal Woman was inspired by Maya Angelo, who wrote 'Phenomenal Woman', a favorite poem of mine. — Meena Harris Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“In the streets, the children scream, the lovers cried, and the poets dreamed,” he crooned, putting down the metal grill tongs to take my… — Alexandria Clarke Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
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