Patti Smith Zitate

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„Mein Hemd war etwas zerknittert, aber warum sollte es ihm besser gehen als mir.“

“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.”

“Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.”

“Patti, did art get us?'
I looked away, not really wanting to think about it. 'I don't know, Robert. I don't know.'
Perhaps it did, but no one could regret that. Only a fool would regret being had by art; or a saint.”

“Within that moment was trust, compassion, and our mutual sense of irony. He was carrying death within him and I was carrying life. We were both aware of that, I know.”

“In time we often become one with those we once failed to understand.”

“He took twelve pictures that day.
Within a few days he showed me the contact sheet. "This one has the magic," he said.
When I look at it now, I never see me. I see us.”

“Time to travel, to acquiesce to fate.”

“He spared the child and spoiled the rod
I have not sold myself to God!”

“Life is filled with holes
Johnny's laying there in his sperm coffin
The angel looks down at him and says "Oh, pretty boy
Can't you show me nothing but surrender?”

“People have the power
To redeem the work of fools
Upon the meek the graces shower
It's decreed the people rule.”

“Look around you, all around you
Riding on a copper wave
Do you like the world around you?
Are you ready to behave?”

“Americans just don't know what being a movie star's all about.”

“She is a soldier. She will not be defeated.”