870 Quotes by Patti Smith

I wanted to go to Portland because it’s a really good book town.

I knew he didn’t love me, but I adored him anyway.

Everyone thinks of God as a man – you can’t help it – Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to be a man.

I want to keep my life as unfettered as possible. So maybe I’ll just pretend to get rare books from my catalogue, and not really get them.

Some things are not lost but sacrificed.

When you hit a wall, just kick it in.

And what was the ultimate goal? To have one’s work caged in art’s great zoos – the Modern, the Met, the Louvre?

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.

Home is a desk. The amalgamation of a dream. Home is the cats, my books, and my work never done. All the lost things that may one day call to me, the faces of my children who will one day call to me. Maybe we can’t draw flesh from reverie nor retrieve a dusty spur, but we can gather the dream itself and bring it back uniquely whole.