Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.Patti Smith
So I haven't any word for it at all. Love is. It is so vast it defies definition.Patti Smith
One can't plan for the future, for it will be present soon enough.Patti Smith
Life isn't some vertical or horizontal line -- it is an individual timeline.Patti Smith
To be an artist -- actually, to be a human being in these times -- it's all difficult. ... What matters is to know what you want and pursue it.Patti Smith
In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.Patti Smith
Who can know the heart of youth but youth itself?Patti Smith
The 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.Patti Smith
I believe that we are souls housed in a body, and that no matter how obscured by nature or by illness, the soul can shine through.Patti Smith
I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one.Patti Smith
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.Patti Smith
Our mission was to musically weave strands of ourselves into a world falling apart.Patti Smith
I never felt so free as I did that first morning, stepping out into the still dark street with my small suitcase.Patti Smith