Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.
PATTI SMITHEven as a child, I knew what I didn’t want. I didn’t want to wear red lipstick.
More Patti Smith Quotes
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I started resenting how much art robs from life. I’d go to a party and I couldn’t enjoy myself, even sexually. All I could think was how I was going to reinvent the experience into a piece of art.
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Will you pretend you’re my boyfriend?
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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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I think it’s important for people to realize that we were all young, all naive, and also we had lived in a time that had magic.
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Hail brother, the distant thunder is nothing but hearts beating as one.
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Writing is not some quiet, closet act.
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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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I’ve always considered myself a writer.
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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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What a model of an artist was for me was an artist who worked. Picasso was the ultimate model, because the work ethic he had.
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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 knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.
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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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In my low periods, I wondered what was the point of creating art. For whom? Are we animating God? Are we talking to ourselves? And what was the ultimate goal? To have one’s work caged in art’s great zoos – the Modern, the Met, the Louvre?
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I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust.
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