I may not know what is in your mind, but I know how your mind works.
Patti Smith, M Train.
“All I needed for the mind was to be led to new stations. All I needed for the heart was to visit a place of greater storms.”
“And then I walked out, straight through the twilight, treading the beaten earth. There were no dust clouds, no signs of anyone, but I paid no mind. I was my own lucky hand of solitaire. The desert ...”
“He picks the lock of her dreams with her own hairpin.”
“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 fr...”
“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 ...”
“I read and feel that same compulsion; the desire to possess what he has written, which can only be subdued by writing something myself.”
“You don't know me. You know one me, just like I know one you. And you can't know every me, and I can't know every you.”
“When I knew people, I knew me and when I knew me, I knew people.”
“Our spirit knows our purpose, let these en-grained impressions shape our perceptions of who we think we are today.”
“When the mind wants to hope it refuses to listen.”
“Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content, The quiet mind is richer than a crown...”
“It turns out that the men who ultimately, who unpretentiously value peace are willing to sacrifice their own peace of mind in order to render it. The question is, 'Who, between opposing forces, wou...”