Poetry Quote by Charlotte Eriksson — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“... and I realise the only way to tell the others”

“You read and write and sing and experience, thinking that one day these things will build the character you admire to live as. You love and lose and bleed best you can, to the extreme, hoping that one day the world will read you like the poem you want to be.”

“It's the smell of him in the bathroom, all I need to get ready for the day. Watching him get dressed, and the sound in the kitchen; a slow hum of a song and his movements, picking things to eat. The way I could observe him, for hours, just go on with his day – or as he sleeps – simply breathing in and out, in and out, and it's like the hymn that sings me to peace.”

“So for now,”

“Take a shower. Wash away every trace of yesterday. Of smells. Of weary skin. Get dressed. Make coffee, windows open, the sun shining through. Hold the cup with two hands and notice that you feel the feeling of warmth. 
 You still feel warmth.
Now sit down and get to work. Keep your mind sharp, head on, eyes on the page and if small thoughts of worries fight their ways into your consciousness: threw them off like fires in the night and keep your eyes on the track. Nothing but the task in front of you.”

“I sleep with thee, and wake with thee,”

“If I lived a million lives, I would've felt a million feelings and I still would've fallen a million times for you.”

“as long as there are”

“and I ask myself and you, which of our visions will claim us”

“We thought everything would be”

“When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes,”