I got over the loss of his desk and chair, but never the desire to produce a string of words more precious than the emeralds of Cortés.
PATTI SMITHI was always a tomboy as a kid. I always had boyfriends. I was just a regular girl growing up in the late ’50s and early ’60s, but I was never really attracted to what the girls were attracted to: makeup, my appearance, homemaking.
More Patti Smith Quotes
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Writing is not some quiet, closet act.
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Trust is everything between two artists, or between subject and artist. You have to have trust or nothing good will come out of it.
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Well, I’m not one of those people who needs the limelight. If I’m performing, that’s what I’m doing. If I’m not, I don’t long for it. I don’t need the approval of an audience, or applause.
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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.
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Vowels are the most illuminated letters in the alphabet. Vowels are the colors and souls of poetry and speech. (1976 Penthouse interview)
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My father came a couple of times, but he always blamed his hearing loss on my loud amplifiers. So he didn’t come anymore, but I had his support.
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Will you pretend you’re my boyfriend?
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All I’ve ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.
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I’m not really a nostalgic person.
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Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.
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I’ve always had a desire to write something and capture people’s imagination like Peter Pan had captured mine.
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Life isn’t some vertical or horizontal line — you have your own interior world, and it’s not neat.
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Hail brother, the distant thunder is nothing but hearts beating as one.
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For Christmas every year, my mother used to give me those cheap little diaries that would tell your horoscope and provide a little blank slot for each day.
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I’m okay with roaming around the world in my bunk for days on end. Maybe every third day I’ll get a shower or stumble out at dawn and realize I’m in a field in Poland. I like that kind of life.
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