I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth
Patti SmithTags: morals
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 SmithI 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 SmithThe 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 SmithTags: creative-process
I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.
Patti SmithAngel looks down at him and says, “Oh, pretty boy, Can't you show me nothing but surrender?
Patti SmithI hated the soup and felt little for the can.
Patti SmithI 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 SmithTags: patti-smith just-kids
I'm certain, as we filled down the great staircase, that I appeared the same as ever, a moping twelve years-old, all arms and legs. But secretly I knew I had been transformed, moved by the revelation that human beings create art, that to be an artist was to see what others could not.
Patti SmithWe imagined ourselves as the Sons of Liberty with a mission to preserve, protect, and project the revolutionary spirit of rock and roll. We feared that the music which had given us sustenance was in danger of spiritual starvation. We feared it losing its sense of purpose, we feared it falling into fattened hands, we feared it floundering in a mire of spectacle, finance, and vapid technical complexity.
Patti SmithTags: music rock-and-roll
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