Patti Smith: Trending quotes (page 2)

“We wanted, it seemed, what we already had, a lover and a friend to create with, side by side. To be loyal, yet be free.”

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

“In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth. For nothing is more precious than the life force and may the love of that force guide you as you go.”

“I thought to myself that he contained a whole universe that I had yet to know.”

“Both of them were ahead of their time, but they didn't live long enough to see the time they were ahead of.”

“I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust.”

“Paths that cross will cross again.”

“Later he would say that the Church led him to God, and LSD led him to universe. He also said that art led him to the devil, and sex kept him with the devil.”

“We were as Hansel and Gretel and we ventured out into the black forest of the world.”

“Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.”

“What is the soul? What color is it? I suspected my soul, being mischievous, might slip away while I was dreaming and fail to return. I did my best not to fall asleep, to keep it inside of me where it belonged.”

“How is it that we never completely comprehend our love for someone until they’re gone?”

“I wish I could just project everything on the paper”

“Finally, by the sea, where God is everywhere, I gradually calmed.”

“Writing is not some quiet, closet act.”

“I believe in movement. I believe in that lighthearted balloon, the world. I believe in midnight and the hour of noon. But what else do I believe in? Sometimes everything. Sometimes nothing. It fluctuates like light flitting over a pond.”

“We never had any children," he said ruefully. "Our work was our children.”

“To be an artist is to enter into competition with god.”

“Got to lose control before you take control.”