Patti Smith Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.

  Patti Smith

  Inspirational, Letting Go, Fun

• 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.

  Patti Smith

  Children, Believe, Sea

• Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe, love is a banquet on which we feed.

  Patti Smith

  Romantic, Love Is, Fire

  "Because the Night" (song) (1978). Coauthored with Bruce Springsteen.

• ...heroine: the artist, the premier mistress writhering in a garden graced w/highly polished blades of grass... release (ethiopium) is the drug...an animal howl says it all...notes pour into the caste of freedom...the freedom to be intense...to defy social order and break the slow kill monotony of censorship. to break from the long bonds of servitude-ruthless adoration of the celestial shepherd. let us celebrate our own flesh-to embrace not ones race mais the marathon-to never let go of the fiery sadness called desire.

  Patti Smith

  Letting Go, Sadness, Garden

• I got over the loss of his desk and chair, but never the desire to produce a string of words more precious than the emeralds of Cortés.

  Patti Smith

  Loss, Desire, Emeralds

  Patti Smith (2010). “Just Kids”, p.279, A&C Black

• I've always had a desire to write something and capture people's imagination like Peter Pan had captured mine.

  Patti Smith

  Writing, People, Imagination

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

• More than anything that's been the thread through my life - the desire to write, the impulse to write. I mean, it's taken me other places, but it was the impulse to write that led me to singing.

  Patti Smith

  Taken, Writing, Mean

  "The Saturday interview: Patti Smith". Interview with Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2011.

• We all make choices. Believe me, I would like to write the hit of the world. It's not like I have any desire to be in the shadows. My vision isn't marketing. Some people want to sell 6 million albums. There's nothing wrong with that. It's just not what I do. I'd rather look at a piece of work and say it's great rather than it's successful.

  Patti Smith

  Believe, Writing, Successful

  Source: www.sfgate.com

• People came at me with all sorts of offers, wanting to make me into a hard-core Cher. I had no desire for any amount of money to be reformed for someone's vision, because in the end, that's what you got: your clay in someone else's hands.

  Patti Smith

  Hands, People, Vision

• When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write a straightforward detective novel.

  Patti Smith

  Writing, Secret, Desire

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