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

“Silly girl, your different was your beautiful all along.”

“Watch carefully”

“What good are wings without the courage to fly?”

“Come, my darling,”

“I’ll let you into my heart”

“You are enough, a thousand times enough.”

“From the time I began to read, as a child, I loved to feel their heft in my hand and the warm spot caused by their intimate weight in my lap; I loved the crisp whisper of a page turning, the musky odor of old paper and the sharp inky whiff of new pages. Leather bindings sent me into ecstasy. I even loved to gaze at a closed book and daydream about the possibilities inside.”

“Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems,”

“Farewell to thee! but not farewell”

“it's so easy to be a poet”

“At a certain level of abstraction, anyone could have written the poem, but that didn't feel true either. It seemed as though what he was really saying was: there's something beautiful about the way you think and feel, or the way you experience the world is beautiful in some way.”

“To be a poet, I realized, a true poet, was to become the Avatar of humanity incarnate; to accept the mantle of poet is to carry the cross of the Son of Man, to suffer the birth pangs of the Soul-Mother of Humanity.”