Patti Smith – Poetry with a microphone and a snarl
The first line of Horses does not ask permission.
Gloria – Patti Smith
The first line does not sing so much as it clears the room.
Interview of Patti Smith (1978)
Tom Snyder's 1978 conversation with Patti Smith catches the poet after Horses had already redrawn the map and in the year of Easter, when Because the Night carried her voice onto the radio.