Devotion (Why I Write)

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Horowitz, Hal. "The Friends of Rachel Worth – The Go-Betweens". AllMusic . Retrieved April 9, 2012. Patti Smith Talks 'Aqua Teen Hunger Force' Finale Song: "A Dream Come True" ". Pitchfork. August 24, 2015 . Retrieved August 24, 2015.

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In 2015, Smith appeared with Nader, spoke and performed the songs "Wing" and "People Have the Power" during the American Museum of Tort Law convocation ceremony in Winsted, Connecticut. [111] In 2016, Smith spoke, read poetry, and performed several songs along with her daughter Jesse at Nader's Breaking Through Power conference at DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. [112] Sisario, Ben (February 24, 2010). "Concert Still Shines a Light on Tibetan Culture". The New York Times . Retrieved April 1, 2019. Patti Smith – Land: Horses/Land Of A Thousand Dances/La Mer (De)". Paste. Archived from the original on December 22, 2015 . Retrieved October 28, 2015. Mapplethorpe's photographs of Smith became the covers for Smith's albums, and they remained lifelong friends until Mapplethorpe's death in 1989. [19] Smith's book and album The Coral Sea is an homage to Mapplethorpe and Just Kids tells the story of their relationship. She also wrote essays for several of Mapplethorpe's books, including one, at Mapplethorpe's request, for his posthumous Flowers. [20] Free of all expectation or desire, she spun, and was at once the loom, the thread, the strand of gold”Petrusich, Amanda (December 10, 2016). "A Transcendent Patti Smith Accepts Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize". The New Yorker. Tarr, Joe (May 30, 2008). The Words and Music of Patti Smith. Praeger Publishers. ISBN 978-0-275-99411-2. The climate emergency is at the forefront of Smith’s mind. We’re meeting via Zoom to discuss her headline concert at the opening of Cop26, and I’m momentarily thrown by the sight of the queen of punk waving at me from her bedroom in New York. But there she is, her thin frame draped in a green shirt, her long silver hair in plaited pigtails on each side of her angular, undone face. A guitar rests in the corner of the room, while her cat makes regular appearances on screen. An artist, almost more than anyone, has got to be free

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Margolis, Lynn (September 20, 2002). "Patti Smith Plays 'Messenger' ". Rolling Stone. New York City: Wenner Media. Archived from the original on September 24, 2017 . Retrieved September 24, 2017. Scaggs, Austin (October 6, 2004). "Q&A: Michael Stipe". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on January 30, 2008 . Retrieved February 4, 2008. Smith, a contemplative writer of gratitude and reverence, . . . deepens her inquiry into the nature of inspiration in this slender, trenchant volume. . . . Gracefully improvisational, as always, Smith offers an unusually poetic, mystical, and transfixing perspective on the mystery of literary creation.”—Donna Seaman, Booklist Flood, Alison (February 5, 2020). "Patti Smith pitches in to help burgled Oregon bookshop". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved February 5, 2020. Goldman, Vivien (November 18, 2014). "Patti Smith on singing at the Vatican: 'Anyone who would confine me to an old line is a fool' ". The Guardian . Retrieved July 24, 2021.We write because we respond because we dare because we dream: “What is the dream? To write something fine, that would be better than I am, and that would justify my trials and indiscretions. To offer proof, through a scramble of words, that God exists” (93). The writer steers the wheel when she can: “Fate has a hand but is not the hand. I was looking for something and found something else, the trailer of a film. Moved by a sonorous though alien voice, words poured” (27). And we must imagine that she is happy. Isn’t this what Camus taught us? The environment is his number one preoccupation’ … with the Dalai Lama at the Glastonbury festival in 2015. Photograph: Dylan Martinez/Reuters Pompeo, Joe (August 21, 2008). "Jessica Lange and Patti Smith Team Up". The Observer. Archived from the original on February 20, 2011 . Retrieved May 11, 2011.