You can water a plant but it has to want to grow.
CHARLIE GILBERTI wept that everything he made was pretty I forgot that I, too, was an art-the girl with a soft heart.
More Charlie Gilbert Quotes
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She stopped reading over the prologue she realized she had too many chapters left to write-moving on.
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I wept that everything he made was pretty I forgot that I, too, was art-the girl with the soft heart.
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The fog is lifting I am healing- You don’t own my heart.
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It is not your job to carry every burden to heal every heart-your love is a divine blessing.
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I became fluent in all their leaving i became in all the grieving.
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You blame your father but it was your mother who did not keep you safe -why you won’t trust women.
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He said ‘words are nothing but clumsy’-as he watched poetry fall from my lips.
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Sure she would drink & digress with you but i undressed your soul. He sank in the shallow end.
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His fear of exile led to mine -there was room for both of us in belonging.
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If I could tell him anything it would be that he was his strongest bravest & most powerful in his most vulnerable of moments -the healed will not hurt you.
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He told me ‘I must be a story’ but for me-he always was.
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Children raised by mothers who do not keep their children sheltered from the wrath of their fathers, end up mistrusting women.
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He is the story I cannot finish he is the poem I’ll always miss.
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He says your poems whisper too loudly of ugly truths. He forgets he authors the endings.
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To be held safe in our vulnerabilities -isn’t that what we should call love?
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