We were as Hansel and Gretel and we ventured out into the bl... - Patti Smith, Just Kids

"Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply."

"...the law of empathy, by which he could, by his will, transfer himself into an object or a work of art, and thus inflence the outer world. He did not feel redeemed by the work he did. He did not seek redemption. He sought to see what others did not, the projection of his imagination."