Woolgathering Quotes

“I imagined a lot of things. That I would shine. That I'd be good. I'd dwell bareheaded on a summit turning a wheel that would turn the earth undetected, amongst the clouds, I would have some influence; be of some avail.”
― Patti Smith, Woolgathering

“The mind of a child is like a kiss on the forehead — open and disinterested”
― Patti Smith, Woolgathering

“I had one of those headaches. It kept pounding and got into that crazy realm where the guillotine seems like a good idea.”
― Patti Smith, Woolgathering

“The Lord gives us wings
He gives us a stomach
we can fly or vomit”
― Patti Smith, Woolgathering

“Careful how you bare yer soul
Careful not to bare it all”
― Patti Smith, Woolgathering

“The child, mystified by the commonplace, moves effortlessly into the strange..”
― Patti Smith, Woolgathering

“The only thing you can count on is change.”
― Patti Smith, Woolgathering

“How happy we are as children. How the light is dimmed by the voice of reason. We wander through life — a setting without a stone. Until one day we take a turn and there it lies on the ground before us, a drop of faceted blood, more real than a ghost, glowing. If we stir it may disappear. If we fail to act nothing will be reclaimed. There is a way in this little riddle. To utter one's own prayer. In what manner it doesn't matter. For when it is over that person shall possess the only jewel worth keeping. The only grain worth giving away.”
― Patti Smith, Woolgathering

“How wide the world is. How high. And the stuff of the mind— charged, poofs and scatters like seed and fluff. For such is the tooth of the lion. That it bares and bursts into wishes.”
― Patti Smith, Woolgathering

“And the wind caught the edges of the cloth that covered my window. There I kept vigil, alert to the small, easily becoming, through an open eye, monstrous and beautiful.

I would gaze, gauge and just like that, be gone — vane avion, flitting from earth to earth, unconscious of my awkward arms or wayward socks.”
― Patti Smith, Woolgathering

“It seemed like all of creation was mapped out above and I was drawn from the laughter of the other children into a stillness I aspired to master. Here one could hear a seed form or the soul fold like a handkerchief.”
― Patti Smith, Woolgathering

“And these words of advice, imparted with such undivided grace, filled my limbs with such a lightness that I was lifted and left to glide above the grass, although it appeared to all that I was still among them, wrapped in human tasks, with both feet on the ground.”
― Patti Smith, Woolgathering

“Herkes hâlâ orada, onlarla birlikte olduğumu sanıyordu; çünkü iki ayağım yerde, insanların hep uğraştığı işlerle meşgulmuş gibi görünüyordum.”
― Patti Smith, Woolgathering

“Görevim, bir tutam yün gibi uçuşan düşünceleri rüzgârın pençesinden kurtarmaktı.”
― Patti Smith, Woolgathering

“Pek çok şey hayal ederdim. Mesela pırıl pırıl parlayacağımı... İyi biri olacağımı. Bir dağın doruğunda, gözlerden ırak, bulutlar arasında oturup dünyayı döndüren tekerleği çevireceğimi... Biraz olsun etkim olacağını, bir işe yarayacağımı...”
― Patti Smith, Woolgathering