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Blessedness is within us all. — Patti Smith

He picks the lock of her dreams with her own hairpin. — Patti Smith

My style of performance poetry came from the beatniks, Allen Ginsberg. — Patti Smith

I work to Glenn Gould in the morning and go to sleep listening to Parsifal. — Patti Smith

Artists, musicians, scientists - if you have any kind of visionary aptitude, it's often something that you don't have a choice in. You have to do it. — Patti Smith

I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book. — Patti Smith

No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist. — Patti Smith

I got some coffee and stood looking at the sky. — Patti Smith

Life isn't some vertical or horizontal line
you have your own interior world, and it's not neat. — Patti Smith

a black granite cube containing only the character mu — Patti Smith

All of my role models, whether it was the disciples, or John the Baptist or Arthur Rimbaud, slept under the stars. — Patti Smith

each possessed something the other wanted and, in that way, complemented the other. — Patti Smith

I've never felt grounded because of my ancestry or my gender. I think until women get away from that they're not going to be great writers. — Patti Smith

I think masturbating is a really important function in art. People don't like to hear that kind of stuff, but it's true. — Patti Smith

He flashed a huge smile, one of absolute joy, from a place of no beginning or end. — Patti Smith

When I'm on my own with my camera, taking these pictures, it feels as if I am in a room of my own, a self-contained world. — Patti Smith

I was actually born in Chicago, and then when I was a toddler, my parents moved to Philadelphia. — Patti Smith

Thank you, I said. I have lived in my own book. One I never planned to write, recording time backwards and forwards. — Patti Smith

The Chelsea was like a doll's house in the Twilight Zone, with a hundred rooms, each a small universe. — Patti Smith

Paths that cross will cross again. — Patti Smith

I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf. — Patti Smith

I'm more materialistic about myself than I am about objects — Patti Smith

He contained, even at an early age, a stirring and the desire to stir. — Patti Smith

Polaroid by its nature makes you frugal. You walk around with maybe two packs of film in your pocket. You have 20 shots, so each shot is a world. — Patti Smith

People like beauty and purity. They pretend that's what it's all about. — Patti Smith

Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the writer and the misfit. — Patti Smith

The only thing you can count on is change. — Patti Smith

I have vague memories, like impressions on glass plates ... — Patti Smith

To be an artist is to enter into competition with god. — Patti Smith

I clawed through a thick web of the culture's consciousness that I hadn't known existed. — Patti Smith

I'd never had people drive me around, and then all of a sudden, if a car didn't come, I'd say, "Where's my car?" — Patti Smith

Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional. — Patti Smith

- What are you writing? I looked up at her, somewhat surprised. I had absolutely no idea. — Patti Smith

You can't carve up the world. It's not a pie. — Patti Smith

My mission is to stay healthy and productive and serve as a good example. — Patti Smith

A good artist's always got his hand in his zipper. — Patti Smith

I was quite an insomniac. I rarely slept as a child. Having God to talk to at night was nice. — Patti Smith

I felt alien my whole life, but I didn't feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender. — Patti Smith

Nothing can be truly replicated. Not a love, not a jewel, not a single line. — Patti Smith

The only thing I daydreamed about was being an opera singer. But I was so skinny and so pathetic that that sort of wasn't going to happen. — Patti Smith

I longed to read everything I possibly could, and the things I read in turn produced new yearnings. — Patti Smith

People called me the godmother of punk, but I never name myself anything. — Patti Smith

I am not really certain how original my contribution to music is as I am obviously an amateur. — Patti Smith

I like gettin' old. — Patti Smith

And when we went home he was unnaturally quiet and looked at me as if he wanted to convey all he was feeling without words. — Patti Smith

Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star. — Patti Smith

We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves. — Patti Smith

Poets don't finish poems, they abandon them. — Patti Smith

I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist. — Patti Smith

I wrote to give myself something to read. — Patti Smith

As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag. — Patti Smith

An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch. — Patti Smith

How is it that we never completely comprehend our love for someone until they're gone? — Patti Smith

Wisdom was a teapot, pouring from above. Desolation angels, served it up with love. — Patti Smith

Who can know the heart of youth except youth itself. — Patti Smith

I just do my work, and I work every day, and my ambition is just to do something better than I last did. — Patti Smith

Fate is like a secret friend that helps push you on into life. — Patti Smith

What will happen to us?" I asked. "There will always be us," he answered. — Patti Smith

The hand above turns those leaves of loves, all in all a timeless view. Each dream of life flung from paradise everlasting, ever new. — Patti Smith

No matter what anybody thinks about any of them, every record I've done has been done with the same amount of care, anguish, pain, suffering, and joy. — Patti Smith

My sunglasses are like my guitar. — Patti Smith

I drew no line between life and art. I was the same on- as offstage. — Patti Smith

Sure I destroyed my guitar at every concert, but it was okay, because I'd always get a shiny new one the very next day. — Patti Smith

Friendship makes thieves of us all — Patti Smith

I wish I could have hung out with Patti Smith in the seventies, and also have some crazy times. — Ellie Goulding

It was an unexpected encounter that slowly altered the course of my life. — Patti Smith

I love my little overgrown yard. And my house is wonderful. It's everything that I need. — Patti Smith

-What is the song about? I asked.
-Death, he answered with a laugh. But don't worry, nobody dies, it is the death of love. — Patti Smith

Those were mystical times. An era of small pleasures. — Patti Smith

I read and feel that same compulsion; the desire to possess what he has written, which can only be subdued by writing something myself. — Patti Smith

Nothing was spoken, it was just mutually understood. — Patti Smith

Art is by nature optimistic. Art is optimistic because it is alive. — Patti Smith

Who can know the heart of youth but youth itself? — Patti Smith

Vowels are the most illuminated letters in the alphabet. Vowels are the colors and souls of poetry and speech. (1976 Penthouse interview) — Patti Smith

My father was a dreamy fellow - he read Plato and Socrates and watched Phillies games. — Patti Smith

[W]ithout a doubt we sometimes eclipse our own dreams with reality. — Patti Smith

My mother had no end of tragedy in her life. She would make herself get up and take a deep breath and go out and do laundry. Hang up sheets. — Patti Smith

A real prison breakfast" I said.
"Yeah, but we are free."
And that summed it up. — Patti Smith

I'd try to write my poems in a certain rhythm. I had my rock 'n' roll stuff for performing and my denser stuff for writing. — Patti Smith

It's not so easy writing about nothing. — Patti Smith

An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God. — Patti Smith

We seek to stay present, even as the ghosts attempt to draw us away. — Patti Smith

When I was a young girl, I'd love giving book reports. — Patti Smith

I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business. — Patti Smith

I loved being a rock and roll star, but it wasn't what I wanted in life. — Patti Smith

Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand. — Patti Smith

The mind of a child is like a kiss on the forehead - open and disinterested — Patti Smith

I always wrote like rock 'n' roll. And I always listen to rock 'n' roll as poetry. — Patti Smith

Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply. — Patti Smith

Pollution is a necessary result of the inability of man to reform and transform waste. — Patti Smith

The thing is that as you grow through life, the pursuit of art and the pursuit of new ideas, all these things keeps your mind elastic. — Patti Smith

Mohammed personally mapped out seven heavens. If he got to seven, you know there's more. — Patti Smith

We would work side by side for hours, in a state of mutual concentration. — Patti Smith

I'm an artist. I'm interested in how art gets made. — Patti Smith

When I did 'Horses,' I never expected to make another album. — Patti Smith

It got to the point where I started hiding because I didn't want to be photographed. (On living with Robert Mapplethorpe) — Patti Smith

It will not fall away. Man cannot judge it. For art sings of God, and ultimately belongs to Him. — Patti Smith

Your soul was like a network of spittle. — Patti Smith

I hate to be enclosed. I don't like bathroom doors - I don't shut them. In fact, in my house, I have no doors. — Patti Smith

It ain't so easy writing about nothin — Patti Smith