{"author":"Patti Smith","author_id":"Patti+Smith","total_quotes":103,"quotes":[{"text":"I may not know what is in your mind, but I know how your mind works.","author":"Patti Smith","tags":["know","m-train","mind","patti-smith"],"id":1348,"author_id":"Patti+Smith"},{"text":"Who can know the heart of youth but youth itself?","author":"Patti Smith","tags":["youth"],"id":4317,"author_id":"Patti+Smith"},{"text":"Personally, I'm not much for symbolism. I never get it. Why can't things be just as they are? I never thought to psychoanalyze Seymour Glass or sought to break down 'Desolation Row.' I just wanted to get lost, become one with somewhere else, slip a wreath on a steeple top solely because I wished it.","author":"Patti Smith","tags":["art","meaning","reading","symbolism","writing"],"id":13624,"author_id":"Patti+Smith"},{"text":"-What is nothing? I impetuously asked.-It is what you can see of your eyes without a mirror, was the answer.","author":"Patti Smith","tags":["nothing","nothingness","patti-smith"],"id":20961,"author_id":"Patti+Smith"},{"text":"Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.","author":"Patti Smith","tags":["sad"],"id":21611,"author_id":"Patti+Smith"},{"text":"Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.","author":"Patti Smith","tags":["sad"],"id":27181,"author_id":"Patti+Smith"},{"text":"Is it time uninterrupted? Only the present comprehended? Are our thoughts nothing but passing trains, no stops, devoid of dimension, whizzing by massive posters with repeating images? Catching a fragment from a window seat, yet another fragment from the next identical frame? If I write in the present yet digress, is that still real time? Real time, I reasoned, cannot be divided into sections like numbers on the face of a clock. If I write about the past as I simultaneously dwell in the present, am I still in real time? Perhaps there is no past or future, only the perpetual present that contains this trinity of memory.","author":"Patti Smith","tags":["future","memory","past","present"],"id":31871,"author_id":"Patti+Smith"},{"text":"I'm not afraid of terrorism at all. I'm afraid of loss of our freedom, loss of mobility, loss of global comradeship.","author":"Patti Smith","tags":["loss","afraid","terrorism "],"id":48439,"author_id":"Patti+Smith"},{"text":"Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man. The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means sacrifice or some difficult times.","author":"Patti Smith","tags":["good","man","sacrifice "],"id":57079,"author_id":"Patti+Smith"},{"text":"I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords. That was my original mission.","author":"Patti Smith","tags":["music","thought","mission "],"id":58070,"author_id":"Patti+Smith"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":103,"pages":11,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}