Andrea Gibson Quotes About Poetry

Quotes about: Poetry

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  Before I die, I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe.

  Andrea Gibson

  Inspirational, Broken Heart, Prayer

  Andrea Gibson (2018). “Take Me With You”, p.64, Penguin

• I'm not lookin' for someone who can save me. Life rafts might keep you afloat but they rarely get you anywhere and I've got places I wanna go. So break me in two, peel back my rib cage and cover every page of my heart with love poems you will burn someday.

  Andrea Gibson

  Inspirational, Heart, Two

• That night when you kissed me, I left a poem in your mouth, and you can hear some of the lines every time you breathe out.

  Andrea Gibson

  Inspirational, Sexy, Night

• My heart is still a leather jacket I am waiting to give to someone sweet.

  Andrea Gibson

  Inspirational, Sweet, Heart

• Autumn is the hardest season. The leaves are all falling, and they're falling like they're falling in love with the ground.

  Andrea Gibson

  Inspirational, Falling In Love, Autumn

  Andrea Gibson (Poet) (2013). “Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns”, p.43, SCB Distributors

• Baby, I have no idea how this will end. Maybe the equator will fall like a hula hoop from the earth's hips and our mouths will freeze mid-kiss on our 80th anniversary or maybe tomorrow my absolute insanity combined with the absolute obstacle course of your communication skills will leave us like a love letter in a landfill. But whatever, however, whenever this ends I want you to know that right now, I love you forever.

  Andrea Gibson

  Inspirational, Baby, Fall

• Forests may be gorgeous but there is nothing more alive than a tree that learns how to grow in a cemetery.

  Andrea Gibson

  Inspirational, Poetry, Tree

• In your arms I forget what the yarn knows of sweaters. I forget how to hold myself together. So if I unfold now like a love letter tell me you'll write back soon. Tell me you'll still come untethered.

  Andrea Gibson

  Inspirational, Writing, Yarn

• This is my heartbeat like yours, it is a hatchet It can build a house or tear one down.

  Andrea Gibson

  Inspirational, Poetry, House

  Twitter post from Oct 22, 2010

• You never wish on shooting stars. You wish on the ones that have the courage to shine where they are.

  Andrea Gibson

  Inspirational, Stars, Poetry

  Andrea Gibson (Poet) (2013). “Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns”, p.17, SCB Distributors

• So guess what, if I ever have my own team I am picking everyone first even the worst kid and the kid with the stutter like a skipping record 'cause I know all of us are scratched, even if you can't hear it when we speak.

  Andrea Gibson

  Inspirational, Team, Kids

• Last night I saw your ghost pedalling a bicycle with a basket towards a moon as full as my heavy head and I wanted nothing more than to be sitting in that basket like ET with my glowing heart glowing right through my chest and my glowing finger pointing in the direction of our home.

  Andrea Gibson

  Inspirational, Home, Heart

• And we were Banksy on an overpass in New Orleans spray-painting porch lights on the hurricane. We were welcome mats for the un-forgiven. We never sold our windpipes to make a living. We were the letters sent to the wrong address, but opened anyway. We opened anyway.

  Andrea Gibson

  Inspirational, New Orleans, Light

• I'm never gonna wait that extra twenty minutes to text you back and I'm never gonna play hard to get when I know your life has been hard enough already.

  Andrea Gibson

  Inspirational, Enough Already, Play Hard

• Cause I might be naked and lonely Shaking branches for bones But I'm still time zones away From who I was the day before we met You were the first mile Where my heart broke a sweat And I wish you were here I wish you'd never left But mostly I wish you well I wish you my very very best.

  Andrea Gibson

  Inspirational, Lonely, Heart

  Andrea Gibson (Poet) (2013). “Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns”, p.44, SCB Distributors

• You panic button collector. You clock of beautiful ticks. You run out the door if you need to. You flock to the front row of your own class. You feather everything until you know you can always, always shake like a leaf on my family tree and know you belong here. You belong here and everything you feel is okay. Everything you feel is okay.

  Andrea Gibson

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Running

• Everything but "I LOVE YOU" is small talk.

  Andrea Gibson

  Love, Loving Someone, Poetry

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