Creatives are neither born nor created. They are activated.
STEPHANIE BRIARPoetry? That’s easy. I just cut the vein, and let it bleed.
More Stephanie Briar Quotes
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As if flesh and skin and hands are any match for bullets. As if bones won’t crack in hails of powder and lead. As if rivers of blood are not the direct result of trigger fingers that bend but do not break on “bad days”.
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I pressed the dress to my nose, and found what was left of your ghost. It was then that I remembered how to cry.
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I was looking for you in all the places our love used to be. When all along I should have been looking for me.
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It quietly stops my breath to realize that my greatest grand gesture, my last, best act of love was to let you go.
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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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The search for external sources is nothing compared to internal forces.
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Our story bleeds from my eyes until I cannot tell the stars from streetlights.
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When I was a child, I used to fear monsters under the bed. I have since learned that most monsters are found within. And they are always worth fighting.
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To the oppressed with no seat on the table; dreaming of change and better days, I will pull up a chair, and light fires in your name.
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We usually seek the divine in the sky, But religion is best found on the ground. Nature is our true creator.
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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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Emotion = Energy in motion.
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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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I am a phoenix living in a culture of vultures.
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In my dreams you conjure me like a spell in the night. Let us haunt one another with uneasy peace, and die burning alive.
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