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Famous Patti Smith Quotes
“Toyland, toyland . . . once you pass its portals you may never return again.”
“Art is by nature optimistic. Art is optimistic because it is alive.”
“It will not fall away. Man cannot judge it. For art sings of God, and ultimately belongs to Him.”
“Sometimes I just wanted to raise my hands and stop. But stop what? Maybe just growing up.”
“We need a new cosmology. New gods. New sacraments. Another drink.”
“I know fashion is a material thing, but we live in a material world and I love clothes.”
“One day we’ll go in together, and the work will be ours.”
“Deep in my heart how the presence of you shines, in a light to last a whole life through.”
“Pollution is a necessary result of the inability of man to reform and transform waste.”
“Acknowledge all man as fellow creation, but don't follow him.”
“I gave you a wrist watch, baby, and you wouldn't even give me the time of day.”
“Wisdom was a teapot, pouring from above. Desolation angels, served it up with love.”
“These are the times, the times of our own, these are the shapes the world we formed.”
“Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe, love is a banquet on which we feed.”
“Should I pursue a path so twisted? Should I crawl defeated and gifted?”