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
religious angel religion
Wisdom was a teapot, pouring from above. Desolation angels, served it up with love.
baby giving rejection
I gave you a wrist watch, baby, and you wouldn't even give me the time of day.
waste wasting-my-time my-time
I didn't waste my time on things I didn't love.
self self-destructive self-destructive-behavior
There's nothing cool about being self-destructive.
people grace politics
The people have the power to redeem the work of fools. Upon the meek the graces shower, it's decreed the people rule.
believe fate sea
We believe we will raise the sky, we got to fly over the land, over the sea. Fate unwinds and if we die, souls arise. God, do not seize me please.
long want sides
I want to be around a really long time. I want to be a thorn in the side of everything as long as possible.
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.
alcohol drug causes
I've lost many, many friends through natural causes, through alcohol, through drugs, through AIDS. And every time I lose a friend or a loved one, it reminds me how great life is.
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.
children live-life nurse
In the period where I had to live the life of a citizen - a life where, like everybody else, I did tons of laundry and cleaned toilet bowls, changed hundreds of diapers and nursed children - I learned a lot.
find-me ifs
Outside of society, if you're looking that's where you'll find me.
philosophy regulation rules-and-regulations
Words are just rules and regulations to me.
happens
The things I thought would happen didn't. Things I never anticipated unfolded.