Patti Smith
Patti Smith
Patricia Lee "Patti" Smith is an American singer-songwriter, poet, and visual artist who became a highly influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPunk Singer
Date of Birth30 December 1946
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
one-day together
One day we’ll go in together, and the work will be ours.
friendship heart light
Deep in my heart how the presence of you shines, in a light to last a whole life through.
dirty book thinking
The only parts I like out of any of those women books is the dirty parts. But I don't think their dirty parts are any good, really.
hair want performing
The thing I've always liked about performing is that I decide what I want to wear, whether I want to comb my hair.
sky poetry storm
I remember when you were born, it was dawn and the storm settled near my belly. And I rolled in the grass and spit out the gas, and I lit a match and the void went flash. And the sky split and the planets hit, balls of jade dropped and existence stopped.
creating being-a-woman interest
Most women writers don't interest me because they're hung up with being a woman, they're hung up with being Jewish, they're hung up with being somebody or other. Rather than just going, just spurting, just creating.
dream views hands
The hand above turns those leaves of loves, all in all a timeless view. Each dream of life flung from paradise everlasting, ever new.
grief tears
Grief isn't all tears.
new-year yearning turns
I longed to read everything I possibly could, and the things I read in turn produced new yearnings.
rooms energy tension
I like energy. I like to feel it cracklin', I like sexual energy in a room, and I like tension.
birthday age rage
We tried not to age, but time had its rage.
rocks rock-n-roll
I always wrote like rock 'n' roll. And I always listen to rock 'n' roll as poetry.
children thinking america
I don't think the Palestinian people or Afghan children or some other things I'm concerned about are at the top of other people's agendas - not right now, when America is going through such a recession and people are suffering across the board financially. But I think all that will change.
growing-up hands time-passing
Sometimes I just wanted to raise my hands and stop. But stop what? Maybe just growing up.