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Quotes About Connection

I always hated loose ends. Dangling phrases, unopened packages, or a character that inexplicably disappears, like a lone sheet on a clothesline before a vague storm, left to flap in the wind until that same wind carries it away to become the skin of a ghost or a child's tent.
~ Patti Smith
Apart, we were able to see with even greater clarity that we didn't want to be without each other. I
~ Patti Smith
I'm a worker. I do the work to communicate, and I want people to embrace it, and when they do I'm happy.
~ Patti Smith
Mein Hemd war etwas zerknittert, aber warum sollte es ihm besser gehen als mir.
~ Patti Smith
Kahkahalar. Hayatta kalabilmek için önemli bir malzeme. Ve biz s?k s?k kahkaha atard?k.
~ Patti Smith
I tried to write something about Jesse but couldn't, as her face echoed her father's and the proud palace where the ghosts of our old life dwell.
~ Patti Smith
I stand naked when I draw. God holds my hand and we sing together." His manifesto as an artist.
~ Patti Smith
each possessed something the other wanted and, in that way, complemented the other.
~ Patti Smith
I felt connected to the modest peace offered with the fare, thinking about nothing. Just wisps of things, meaningless things, like remembering my mother once told me that Van Johnson always wore red socks, even in black and white movies.
~ Patti Smith
We never saw beyond New York save in books and never sat in an airplane holding each other's hand to ascend into a new sky and descend onto a new Earth. Yet Robert and I had explored the frontier of our work and created space for each other.
~ Patti Smith
We lost contact with Ed but a decade later he was with me in an unexpected way. As I approached the microphone with my electric guitar to sing the opening line "So you want to be a rock 'n' roll star," I remembered his words. Small prophecies.
~ Patti Smith
Hey, sister. What's your situation?" "On earth or in the universe?" He laughed and said, "All right!
~ Patti Smith
Jimi Hendrix] dreamed of amassing musicians from all over the world in Woodstock and they would sit in a field in a circle and play and play. It didn't matter what key or tempo or what melody, they would keep on playing through their discordance until they found a common language. Eventually they would record this abstract universal language of music in his new studio. "The language of peace. You dig?" I did.
~ Patti Smith
Will the children of the future never taste the sweetness of brotherhood?
~ Patti Smith
When I look at it now, I never see me. I see us.
~ Patti Smith
You see, there's a saying carved in Old English on a wooden plank on one of the oldest structures built in America. This is Tangier Island. As it goes, so do we. —Have you actually seen it? I asked. —You don't see things like that. You feel them, as in all important things; they arrive, they come into your dreams. For instance, he added slyly, you're dreaming now.
~ Patti Smith
You made my day, Patti,' he said as he hung up the phone. I can hear him saying that. I can hear it now.
~ Patti Smith
Speak to me heart, All things renew. Hearts will mend, Round the bend. Paths that cross Cross again, Paths that cross Will cross again. - Paths that Cross
~ Patti Smith
As we headed back to Tangier we saw a shepherd guiding a camel with her calf. Rolling down the window, I called out: —What is the little one's name? —His name is Jimi Hendrix. —Hooray, I wake from yesterday! —Inshallah! he called out.
~ Patti Smith
He had told me I had nothing to worry about, but in the end I did. Yet I understood why he couldn't tell me. I think having to define his impulses and confine his identity in terms of sexuality was foreign to him. His drives toward men were consuming but I never felt loved any less. It wasn't easy for him to sever our physical ties, I knew that.
~ Patti Smith
Don't you know This is precisely what I seek, mad myself To envelope every last drupe and pearl shaped ovule, Every nip and cry and needle-fine boring, every drooping, Spore-rich tassle of oak flower, all the whistling, Wing-beating, heavy-tipped matings of an entire prairie Of grasses, every wafted, moaning seed hook You can possibly manage to bring to me, That is exactly what I contrive to take you into my arms With you, again and again.
~ Pattiann Rogers
You see, I think love comes from God. And so, to turn away from love, real love, it could be argued, is to turn away from God.
~ Unknown
Good and true friends ask what wrong and how your doing.
~ Unknown
There is no proof that the groups of mankind differ in their innate mental characteristics or intellectual capacity or that there is any connection between the physical and mental characteristics of human beings.
~ Paul A. Offit