Poetry? That’s easy. I just cut the vein, and let it bleed.
STEPHANIE BRIARCreatives are neither born nor created. They are activated.
More Stephanie Briar Quotes
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You could not keep me fed by throwing me bones and empty promises. I am ashamed to admit how much starving I did before I finally left.
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I erected cities with adoration on my tongue and you burnt mine down in the wake of your love.
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Some days, my mind will still be in prison, but I will live in spite of it. I unlearn how to swim; I trade my gills for lungs and wings.
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Can hope bloom in the shade? Can time give back what it takes away? I once saw the answers to life in your eyes; now I can remember the words to goodbye.
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In the absence of you I look to the moon and pray that the stars light my way, too.
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He’ll keep some daying and tommorwing until he has no tomorrows left. I don’t choose that.
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Light finds you just as I once did: an accident that is no accident.
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Our memories lurch to a reluctant halt in their funeral march, so I can pour salt over them one last time.
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I am a phoenix living in a culture of vultures.
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The day I made peace with my pain was the day I was born again.
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I fall headlong into everything that lights me on fire. I know not of restraint. I was born to burn.
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“Ashes”, we once thought, but the embers in our eyes might have bought us time.
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I don’t know how to put my love down, or to keep holding too much of it.
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Let yourself go a little wild, a little rough around through the edges; the human spirit wasn’t meant for carefully-curated perfection.
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Anxiety is living with an apple on your head and you imagine that everyone you know stands watching with a bow to shoot an arrow at it.
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