Poetry? That’s easy. I just cut the vein, and let it bleed.
STEPHANIE BRIARLast night, I sent you home with a kiss and a promise. I hope you still believe in roses.
More Stephanie Briar Quotes
-
-
Creatives are neither born nor created. They are activated.
STEPHANIE BRIAR -
Let yourself go a little wild, a little rough around through the edges; the human spirit wasn’t meant for carefully-curated perfection.
STEPHANIE BRIAR -
Standing in your power scares a lot of people. You become something formidable, intimating, and aspirational all at once.
STEPHANIE BRIAR -
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.
STEPHANIE BRIAR -
When you focus on directing your energy away from harm and toward healing, you feed the soul and starve the ego.
STEPHANIE BRIAR -
I am strong. My heart still hopes. My mind still dreams. My soul still craves pouring energy into everything that I love.
STEPHANIE BRIAR -
You’re preserved inside of me; cadaversque. I both acquiesce and atrophy because of it.
STEPHANIE BRIAR -
The search for external sources is nothing compared to internal forces.
STEPHANIE BRIAR -
We usually seek the divine in the sky, But religion is best found on the ground. Nature is our true creator.
STEPHANIE BRIAR -
I erected cities with adoration on my tongue and you burnt mine down in the wake of your love.
STEPHANIE BRIAR -
I was looking for you in all the places our love used to be. When all along I should have been looking for me.
STEPHANIE BRIAR -
In my dreams we got past the parking lot; you took me past the old, oak door, led me up onto the vacant altar, and offered me to every god whose name you invoked as you worshipped my body.
STEPHANIE BRIAR -
We weren’t written in the stars; all that glitters wasn’t ours.
STEPHANIE BRIAR -
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.
STEPHANIE BRIAR -
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.
STEPHANIE BRIAR -
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.
STEPHANIE BRIAR -
How do you sleep soundly, knowing you traded roses for weeds?
STEPHANIE BRIAR -
In my dreams you conjure me like a spell in the night. Let us haunt one another with uneasy peace, and die burning alive.
STEPHANIE BRIAR -
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.
STEPHANIE BRIAR -
I fall headlong into everything that lights me on fire. I know not of restraint. I was born to burn.
STEPHANIE BRIAR -
Our story bleeds from my eyes until I cannot tell the stars from streetlights.
STEPHANIE BRIAR -
Our memories lurch to a reluctant halt in their funeral march, so I can pour salt over them one last time.
STEPHANIE BRIAR -
In the absence of you I look to the moon and pray that the stars light my way, too.
STEPHANIE BRIAR -
You are what it feels like to watch the final silvers of sun fall and die into the silver ocean; tangerine sky giving way to moon-glow and starlight.
STEPHANIE BRIAR -
If we are what we love, Then I am whatever you are made of.
STEPHANIE BRIAR -
The glint of mischief in your eyes is the flint in my matchstick. Striking; always this close to igniting.
STEPHANIE BRIAR