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

“You become a house where the wind blows straight through, because no one bothers the crack in the window or lock on the door, and you’re the house where people come and go as they please, because you’re simply too unimpressed to care. You let people in who you really shouldn’t let in, and you let them walk around for a while, use your bed and use your books, and await the day when they simply get bored and leave. You’re still not bothered, though you knew they shouldn’t have been let in in the first place, but still you just sit there, apathetic like a beggar in the desert.”

“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.”

“You were the hardest year of my life and I’ve never been so happy. What does that say about me?”

“I haven’t been very impressed lately.”

“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.”

“قلت لكم مرارا”

“Terence, this is stupid stuff:”

“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”

“When I throw back my head and howl”

“Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee”

“Poetry is an act of peace. Peace goes into the making of a poet as flour goes into the making of bread.”