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

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

“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.”

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

“It's 4am again and I'm just getting started. People are boring and I want to burn with excitement or anger and bleed, bleed through my words. I want to get all fucked up and write real and raw and ugly and beautifully. I bet you're sleeping safe and calm, and you can stay there, it's safer there, and you wouldn't stand one night on this journey my mind wanders off to every night you close your eyes. I'll stay here one day and I will never come down.”

“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.”

“I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.”

“Someone once told me that explaining is an admission of failure.”

“My Heart”

“The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.”

“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”

“Since the majority of me”