Devotion Quote by Patti Smith Download Open image ““Why do we write? A chorus erupts. Because we cannot simply live.”” — Patti Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Devotion Life Patti-smith Poetry Writing
“How I love - writing, acting, breathing the atmosphere- and one day I'll have it. If I cannot write, I shall die.” — Lily Koppel Copy Share Image
“We write because we need somewhere for the stories in our heads to live.” — Dana George Copy Share Image
“You cannot write to save your soul. given up it drifts and does the singing.” — Marie Luise Kaschnitz Copy Share Image
“We all know writing is a reclusive, lonely endeavour. It just is. But nobody writes alone.” — Iain Reid Copy Share Image
“Writing keeps me at my desk, constantly trying to write a perfect sentence. It is a great privilege to make one’s living from writing… — John Banville Copy Share Image
“One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards will be at one's throat all the sooner.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The writer's job is to turn the unspeakable into words - not just any words, but, if you can, into rhythm and blues.” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“For many writers the goal is a thousand words a day. For me, just give me one thought, and the words will take care… — Garry Fitchett 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
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
In freedom can be found many devotions: a devotion to love, a desire to believe, a willingness to be happy, a perseverance to have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can remember coming downstairs before school every day and my mom would be reading her Bible and doing her devotion and praying. Both… — Mike Fisher Copy Share Image
I have fallen in love with you my angel. I sought nothing of you but only to see that dazzling smile of yours once… — Mahmoud El Hallab Copy Share Image
I’d never known it was possible to love as he did— with complete devotion yet devoid of promises. — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
Every Holy Mass, heard with devotion, produces in our souls marvelous effects, abundant spiritual and material graces which we, ourselves, do not know...It is… — Pio of Pietrelcina Copy Share Image
Daily simple, sincere, and mighty prayers lift our lives to a higher spiritual altitude. In our prayers we praise God, give thanks to Him,… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
Never despise a drink because it is easy to make and/or uses commercial mixes. Unquestioning devotion to authenticity is, in any department of life,… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
“It didn’t break the trance. She wasn’t sure that anything could, and briefly wondered if they’d stay like this until flesh rotted away from… — Ashton Morgan Copy Share Image
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