“No one expected me. Everything awaited me.”
―
Patti Smith,
Just Kids
“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.” ― Patti Smith, Just Kids
“Everything distracted me, but most of all myself.” ― Patti Smith, Just Kids
“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, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction), November 17, 2010)” ― Patti Smith
“Well I haven't fucked much with the past,But I've fucked plenty with the future.- Babelogue” ― Patti Smith, Patti Smith Collected Lyrics, 1970-2015
“I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth” ― Patti Smith, Just Kids
“What will happen to us?" I asked. "There will always be us," he answered.” ― Patti Smith, Just Kids
“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.” ― patti smith, Just Kids
“Everything is holy! everybody's holy! everywhere is holy! everyday is in eternity! Everyman's an angel!” ― Allen Ginsberg, Howl and Other Poems
“The artist seeks contact with his intuitive sense of the gods, but in order to create his work, he cannot stay in this seductive and incorporeal realm. He must return to the material world in order to do his work. It's the artist's responsibility to balance mystical communication and the labor of creation.” ― Patti Smith, Just Kids
“Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words.” ― Patti Smith
“I don't think," he insisted. "I feel.” ― Patti Smith, Just Kids
“Who can know the heart of youth but youth itself?” ― Patti Smith, Just Kids
“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.” ― Patti Smith, Just Kids
“We went our separate ways, but within walking distance of one another.” ― Patti Smith, Just Kids
“I believe that we, that this planet, hasn't seen its Golden Age. Everybody says its finished ... art's finished, rock and roll is dead, God is dead. Fuck that! This is my chance in the world. I didn't live back there in Mesopotamia, I wasn't there in the Garden of Eden, I wasn't there with Emperor Han, I'm right here right now and I want now to be the Golden Age ...if only each generation would realise that the time for greatness is right now when they're alive ... the time to flower is now.” ― Patti Smith
“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.” ― Patti Smith
“I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book.” ― Patti Smith
“Yet you could feel a vibration in the air, a sense of hastening. It had started with the moon, inaccessible poem that it was. Now men had walked upon it, rubber treads on a pearl of the gods. Perhaps it was an awareness of time passing, the last summer of the decade. Sometimes I just wanted to raise my hands and stop. But stop what? Maybe just growing up.” ― Patti Smith, Just Kids
“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.” ― Patti Smith, Just Kids
“Everything distracted me, but most of all myself.” ― Patti Smith, Just Kids
“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, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction), November 17, 2010)” ― Patti Smith
“Well I haven't fucked much with the past,But I've fucked plenty with the future.- Babelogue” ― Patti Smith, Patti Smith Collected Lyrics, 1970-2015
“I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth” ― Patti Smith, Just Kids
“What will happen to us?" I asked. "There will always be us," he answered.” ― Patti Smith, Just Kids
“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.” ― patti smith, Just Kids
“Everything is holy! everybody's holy! everywhere is holy! everyday is in eternity! Everyman's an angel!” ― Allen Ginsberg, Howl and Other Poems
“The artist seeks contact with his intuitive sense of the gods, but in order to create his work, he cannot stay in this seductive and incorporeal realm. He must return to the material world in order to do his work. It's the artist's responsibility to balance mystical communication and the labor of creation.” ― Patti Smith, Just Kids
“Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words.” ― Patti Smith
“I don't think," he insisted. "I feel.” ― Patti Smith, Just Kids
“Who can know the heart of youth but youth itself?” ― Patti Smith, Just Kids
“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.” ― Patti Smith, Just Kids
“We went our separate ways, but within walking distance of one another.” ― Patti Smith, Just Kids
“I believe that we, that this planet, hasn't seen its Golden Age. Everybody says its finished ... art's finished, rock and roll is dead, God is dead. Fuck that! This is my chance in the world. I didn't live back there in Mesopotamia, I wasn't there in the Garden of Eden, I wasn't there with Emperor Han, I'm right here right now and I want now to be the Golden Age ...if only each generation would realise that the time for greatness is right now when they're alive ... the time to flower is now.” ― Patti Smith
“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.” ― Patti Smith
“I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book.” ― Patti Smith
“Yet you could feel a vibration in the air, a sense of hastening. It had started with the moon, inaccessible poem that it was. Now men had walked upon it, rubber treads on a pearl of the gods. Perhaps it was an awareness of time passing, the last summer of the decade. Sometimes I just wanted to raise my hands and stop. But stop what? Maybe just growing up.” ― Patti Smith, Just Kids
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