Bread of Angels Quotes

“This is what the writer craves, in a café in the earliest hours, in an empty drawing room of a hotel, or scrawling in notebook in the pew of a silent cathedral. A sudden shaft of brightness containing the vibration of a particular moment. . . . The unsullied memory of unpremediated gestures of kindness. These are the bread of angels.”
― Patti Smith, Bread of Angels: A Memoir

“I chose to open with our version of Gloria, claiming the right to create, without apology, from a stance beyond gender or social definition, but not beyond the responsibility to create something of worth.”
― Patti Smith, Bread of Angels: A Memoir

“The artist seeks the infinite, yet creates on earth, attempting to snatch a wisp of the consciousness of God, then returning to create material things.”
― Patti Smith, Bread of Angels: A Memoir

“It wasn’t happiness, but something at the time that seemed more intoxicating; it was abandon.”
― Patti Smith, Bread of Angels: A Memoir

“Despite damage to my sight and altered physical abilities, my consciousness unfolded like a bright scroll, and I reconnected with the mystic flow of language, the golden scales of heroic deeds.”
― Patti Smith, Bread of Angels: A Memoir