Patti Smith: Trending quotes

“I immersed myself in books and rock 'n' roll, the adolescent salvation…”

“We learned we wanted too much. We could only give from the perspective of who we were and what we had. Apart, we were able to see with even greater clarity that we didn’t want to be without each other.”

“I imagined myself as Frida to Diego, both muse and maker. I dreamed of meeting an artist to love and support and work with side by side.”

“Nothing can be truly replicated. Not a love, not a jewel, not a single line.”

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

“So my last image was as the first. A sleeping youth cloaked in light, who opened his eyes with a smile of recognition for someone who had never been a stranger.”

“No one expected me. Everything awaited me.”

“Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.”

“Everything distracted me, but most of all myself.”

“Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book."

(Acceptance speech,, November 17, 2010)”

“Freedom is… the right to write the wrong words.”

“I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth”

“What will happen to us?" I asked. "There will always be us," he answered.”

“I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand,
that Joplin had the last drunken throat,
that Morrison had the last enlightened mind.”

“Jesus died
For somebody's sins
But not mine.”

“I don't think," he insisted. "I feel.”

“Who can know the heart of youth but youth itself?”

“Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.”

“We went our separate ways, but within walking distance of one another.”