Richard Hell

The wit and wisdom of Richard Hell. I was sayin' let me outta here before I was even born...

[Richard Hell @RichardHellSez]

When I was 18 and had started that literary magazine I mentioned, I wrote Allen Ginsberg for a poem and then when he sent one I rejected it.

[Patti Smith Quotes @ThePattiSmith]

What the fuck is friendly fire? This guitar is the weapon of my generation, and this weapon is fucking friendly fire!

[Richard Hell @RichardHellSez]

(Love) murders your heart - they didn't tell you that part.

[Lou Reed @LouReedSays]

Heavenly wine and roses seem to whisper to me when you smile.

[Lou Reed @LouReedSays]

One chord is fine. Two chords is pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.

[Richard Hell @RichardHellSez]

...sometimes I am terrified to wonder whether all I know about myself is love and hate you for it.

[Richard Hell @RichardHellSez]

Not too long ago, I saw that somebody said something like, "If I hate it, I know I like it." It might have been John Waters.

[Richard Hell @RichardHellSez]

The hunter thought her heart could hold the key to open up his own and set him free
but the hunter was drowned
and he never was found.

[Richard Hell @RichardHellSez]

…Ideas are free property. I stole shit too.

[Richard Hell @RichardHellSez]

Only time can write a song that’s really real The most a man can do is say the way its playing feels -

[Richard Hell @RichardHellSez]

And know he only knows as much as time to him reveals

[Richard Hell @RichardHellSez]

I would like to prophecy the end of time and the coming of exquisite legs and golden auras among the hilltops and clouds...

[Richard Hell @RichardHellSez]

No fate worse than to never leave yourself and it's as well the most repulsive pain

[Richard Hell @RichardHellSez]

I say Hey how's the group, when's the set gonna start?
She says I know that girl - there's a tattoo on her heart.

[Richard Hell @RichardHellSez]

I realized that this was the prettiest word in the English language, and it isn't even English: Baudelaire.

[Richard Hell @RichardHellSez]

Head wrapped in your hair/
In a box lined with silk/
You can't learn to talk/
and the air is your milk

[Richard Hell @RichardHellSez]

I'd like to say I'm sorry if I've disappointed you
But everyone expects the world and then they get it too.

[Richard Hell @RichardHellSez]

"Dead Man Poem"

God, I just had the funniest thought! What if the only thing left of me were these lines?

[Richard Hell @RichardHellSez]

Well, I had dropped out of high school and I'd just turned 17 and I was a complete hayseed. I knew nobody in New York.

[Richard Hell @RichardHellSez]

Erasing my face/ I want you so bad/ I want to be you/ It's futile, It's sad