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46 Best Patti Smith Quotes

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1- Swift is the arrow, dark is the thorn, the slate is clean, the future awaits, awake.

2- Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.

3- Life isn’t some vertical or horizontal line — you have your own interior world, and it’s not neat.

4- No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist.

5- I’m here right now and I want now to be the greatest time.

6- The sea is greater than us – it has its rhythm, its art. It comes with our earliest memory, of respiration, breathing in and out.

7- Fate is like a secret friend that helps push you on into life.

8- Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.

9- “Freedom is…the right to write the wrong words.” 

10- Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.

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11- “I’m sure I could write endlessly about nothing. If only I had nothing to say.” 

12- Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.

13- I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust.

14- “No one expected me. Everything awaited me.” 

15- I’ve always thrived on the encouragement of others.

16- Love is an angel disguised as lust.

17- “I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth” 

18- People need space to air out their thoughts, to have a sense of themselves – unfettered by anything.

19- If we keep our little flame alive, our first feeling of enthusiasm of who we are, without the influence or intervention of others, we will prevail.

20- People have the power to redeem the work of fools.

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21- “Both of them were ahead of their time, but they didn’t live long enough to see the time they were ahead of.” 

22- “In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth. For nothing is more precious than the life force and may the love of that force guide you as you go.” 

23- Acknowledge all man as fellow creation, but don’t follow him.

24- “We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves.”

25- “Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.” 

26- To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It’s freedom.

27- Deep in my heart how the presence of you shines, in a light to last a whole life through.

28- “Sometimes you’re doing really well, then, after three or four years, everything inexplicably crashes like a house of cards and you have to rebuild it. It’s not like you get to a point where you’re all right for the rest of your life.” 

29- Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents.

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30- “We used to laugh at our small selves, saying that I was a bad girl trying to be good and that he was a good boy trying to be bad. Through the years these roles would reverse, then reverse again, until we came to accept our dual natures. We contained opposing principles, light and dark.” 

31- These are the times, the times of our own, these are the shapes the world we formed.

32- We wanted, it seemed, what we already had, a lover and a friend to create with, side by side. To be loyal, yet be free.

33- “I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book.” 

34- You can’t make a mistake when you improvise.

35- “People say beware, but I don’t care. Their words are just rules and regulations to me.” 

36 – “The transformation of the heart is a wondrous thing, no matter how you land there.” 

37- “In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.” 

38- I like my time on earth. And no matter what kind of cards I’ve been dealt, I’m happy to be there.

39- “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.”

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40- “I have vague memories, like impressions on glass plates …” 

41- Often the simplest song is the hardest to write.

42- “Got to lose control before you take control.” 

43- “Perhaps there is no past or future, only the perpetual present that contains this trinity of memory.” 

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44- “For life is the best thing we have in this existence. And if we should desire to believe in something, it should be a beacon within. This beacon being the sun, sea, and sky, our children, our work, our companions and, most simply put, the embodiment of love.” 

45- “Life is at the bottom of things and belief at the top, while the creative impulse, dwelling in the center, informs all.” 

46- In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.

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