“don’t kill flowers growing inside of you for someone who doesn’t appreciate the way you bloom.” iambrillyant
“How strong you are, to go through Hell on Earth, and still smile and carry yourself like you’re in Heaven.” Maxwell Diawuoh
“Now, let me be, let me not want for another. Let me fall in love with the curves and edges of my own body and soul. Let me plant a garden in my heart, and let it spring forth in a blanket of décor.” @prolixen
“I’m not going to let anyone steal or destroy who I’m meant become.” @riffatmatinpoetry
“she was a single drop of the ocean, but she moved with the force of a tsunami” @a-pen-and-some-words
“You are damaged and broken and unhinged. But so are shooting stars and comets.” — Shooting Stars and Comets | Nikita Gill
“some people are artists. some, themselves are art.” @ever-blooming
“ And don’t you ever feel like you are a summary of other people’s opinions. If anything, you’re an unfinished book, and you decide who you let co-write.” — k.h. 1.04 am @evolvement
“Even all the grandest things in life were once something lesser than what they are today.” — It’s okay to start with rubble, castles were built on less / A.G @abasnails
“be softer with you. you are a breathing thing. a memory to someone. a home to a life” — Nayyirah Waheed
“ People who only wish to stifle your bloom, do not belong in your garden.” — Upile. @odetopablo
“We will always be something. Because Darling, we were never nothing.” — Sarn @sarncobin
“The real beauty of being human is knowing that whether something destroys or strengthens you is completely your choice.” @i-wrotethisforme
“She stopped being your Icarus. And she became her own sun.” — cynthia go // Sun [85/365]
“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.” — Rumi @wearefearfullyandwonderfullymade
“ i was not made with fire in my belly so i could be put out i was not made with lightness on my tongue so i could be easy to follow” — from Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
“some women fear the fire some women simply become it…”— r.h. sin
“The body changes over time, becoming a gallery of scars, a canvas of experience, a testament to life and one’s capacity to endure it.”— Janet Fitch, Paint It Black
“And for me, you are the best piece of art of this collection called humans.” — NALK @notalostkid
“Your roots do not determine the beauty of your blossom.”— Sage S.
- Afterword
This is for all the rainy days. they are not necessarily quotes from artist or famous people (actually most of them are from the spilled ink section of tumblr), but they are words that had made me feel better. I hope this helps + please check out the poet’s blogs! Those people are amazing and deserve so much recognition for what they do. (please tell me if anyone want their poem taken down !!!)
