September 2011
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The lights were violet and white. I had an ornamental veil, but I couldn’t bear...
– Patti Smith (via ameliachase)
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By chance, Jimi Hendrix came up the stairs and found me sitting there like some...
– Patti Smith - Just Kids (via ageoffiberglass)
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I didn’t feel for Warhol the way Robert did. His work reflected a culture I...
– Patti Smith on Andy Warhol (via epsteinian)
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We used to laugh at our small selves, saying that I was a bad girl trying to be...
– Patti Smith, Just Kids. (via subterraneanbeat)
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The Best Reads: Remembrances of the Punk Prose... →
Each morning, after she records some “dream residue” in a notebook, Patti Smith walks from her brownstone on the edge of Soho to a coffee shop on Bedford Street, where she orders one cup of coffee and another of hot water, diluting the first with the second as she goes. She misplaced her…
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I feel sad because of the change in our city because New York City is no longer...
– Patti Smith at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) Cinema, London, England on 11/27/2006 (via didaodi)
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I don’t like seeing New York City become a big shopping mall looking like little...
– Patti Smith at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) Cinema, London, England on 11/27/2006 (via didaodi)
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I have given my head in service to art… Art is an anagram for rat… a rodent, a...
– Patti Smith (via patricialeesmith)
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rimbaud-was-a-rolling-stone asked: thank you so much for shouting patricialeesmith out ! there is also fuckyeahpattismith but it's rarely active...
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I was a bit more resourceful than poor Baudelaire. I donned an old plaid coat...
– just kids by patti smith (via step-up)
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for writing desks that shall reflect
a sheaf of lines that speak of trees
all...
– The Lovecrafter, Patti Smith (via headturningturning)
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SARAH MESLE
Dying Art: FORM AND LOSS IN PATTI SMITH’S JUST KIDS
Just Kids. By...
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Caliginous Thoughts.: Patti Smith-Pissing In A... →
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Pissing in a river, watching it rise Tattoo fingers shy away from me Voices voices mesmerize Voices voices beckoning sea Come come come come back come back Come back come back come back Spoke of a wheel, tip of a spoon Mouth of a cave, I’m a slave I’m free. When are you coming ?…
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101 Followers!
I think now is an appropriate time to shout out to the other Patti Smith blog I’ve discovered on tumblr (I’ve only found the one other that’s entirely dedicated, like this one) - http://patricialeesmith.tumblr.com/
Thanks to all of you for following and for having awesome taste!
Keep on blogging Patti Smith! <3
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I was getting to know him. He had absolute confidence in his work and in me, yet...
– Patti Smith, Just Kids (via jimmyrabbitte)
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ORGANIZATION: neo boy #3 1975 patti smith →
organization:
neo boy w/ skin shimmer yellow rubber tissue
fingers forming crazy mountains. etched in pink
flourescent shadows flubber shadow. paper flowers
nodding rhyming bearning red teeth. neo boy grins
and leaps into the sea pommaded with blood.
the sticky kisses. the wet and shining lips
of the neo…
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for writing desks that shall reflect
a sheaf of lines that speak of trees
all...
– The Lovecrafter, Patti Smith (via headturningturning)
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Hey, I know what rock’n’roll is all about. I didn’t come in thinking people...
– Patti Smith (via patricialeesmith)
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