17 Inspirationally Poetic Quotes That Are Stanza-tional

She changed the world
by allowing herself to change.
-P. Cauron

I will chase you
to the edge of days
to our last
tomorrows.
–Atticus

A deeper conversation
is all I want from you.
I want the words
you’re afraid to say–
the lonely ones you keep hidden
in between the folds of your heart.
-AVA

Well fed devils behave better than
famished saints.
-D.L.Smith

The Girl Who was Afraid to Be
She speaks to me fondly of passions and talents,
guitars and stars,
then stops short
and apologizes for speaking at all.
All because somewhere in her life,
someone she loved broke her heart
by ignoring her beautiful words
and telling her to
shut up,
keep it down,
nobody cares.
People aren’t born sad.
We make them that way.
-Nikita Gill

I was always the girl
who loved seeing the world
more than I loved being in love.
Maybe I haven’t found the right person,
or maybe I was more in love with the world,
but if I were to choose between
being free or being in love,
I always choose to be free.
-AVA

I don’t know what I am supposed to do
with everything I feel for you.
No one ever showed me how
to keep the ocean hidden
beneath my skin.
No one ever told me:
in love, you drown.
-AVA

I love hard
and I break
just as hard as I love.
-Gemma Troy

The most beautiful thing
about young love
is the truth
in our hearts
that it will last forever.
-Atticus

I can’t recall a time my heart and I were in the same room.
I’m always a little elsewhere.
Half of me here at home,
the other away with you.
-Beau Taplin

Anyone can love a rose,
but it takes a lot to love a leaf.
It’s ordinary to love the beautiful,
but it’s beautiful to love the ordinary.

Some days I’m the ocean.
Some days I’m the ship.
Tonight I’m the lighthouse:
at the edge,
alone,
and burning.
-Vasiliki

I stood alone beneath the stars and shouted to the heavens
at the top of my lungs
and what was so beautiful
was the way the stars shined
when the sky swallowed your name.
-Christopher Poindexter

Wild Embers
We are the descendants
of the wild women you forgot
We are the stories you thought
would never be taught.
They should have checked the ashes
of the women they burned alive.
Because it takes a single wild ember
to bring a whole wildfire to life.
-Nikita Gill

If love
was all we had,
please say
you’d stay.
-Perry Poetry

With change
comes the chance
to fall in love
with yourself again.
-Gemma Troy