Quote

I’ve written this poem before but always through a window, never through an open door.

Andrea Gibson

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Andrea Gibson
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 13
Poet
Calais
Maine
Andrew Gibson
Written
Always
Never
Poem
Door
Window
Doors
Open

More quotes by Andrea Gibson

Image
I said to the sun, ‘Tell me about the big bang.’ The sun said, ‘it hurts to become.
Andrea Gibson
Image
You can stand on the cliff of my heart and shout nothing but ‘ugly’ through me. I promise all I will echo back is ‘Beauty, beauty, you have always been beauty
Andrea Gibson
Image
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
Image
Touch me 'til my ribs become piano keys.
Andrea Gibson
Image
Commit to loving yourself completely. It’s the most radical thing you will do in your lifetime.
Andrea Gibson
Image
I intend to leave this life so shattered there's gonna have to be a thousand separate heavens for all of my flying parts
Andrea Gibson
Image
My heart is still a leather jacket I am waiting to give to someone sweet.
Andrea Gibson
Image
We all have different reasons for forgetting to breathe.
Andrea Gibson
Image
Safety isn't always safe. You can find one on every gun.
Andrea Gibson
Image
Remember, you didn’t come here to write your heart out. You came to write it in.
Andrea Gibson
Image
Do you think anger is a sincere emotion or the timid motion of a fragile heart trying to beat away its pain?
Andrea Gibson
Image
Love is like sunshine. Sometimes you have to get burned to know you were there. I want to know that I'm here.
Andrea Gibson
Image
The trauma said, ‘Don’t write these poems. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones.
Andrea Gibson
Image
...And for every day you paint the war, take a week and paint the beauty, the color, the shape of the landscape you’re marching towards. Everyone knows what you’re against show them what you’re for.
Andrea Gibson
Image
You keep worrying you’re taking up too much space. I wish you’d let yourself be the milky way.
Andrea Gibson
Image
I would kiss you in the middle of the ocean during a lightning storm cuz I'd rather be left for dead than wondering what thunder sounds like.
Andrea Gibson
Image
But whatever However Whenever this ends I want you to know That right now I love you forever
Andrea Gibson
Image
What Gods do you believe in? I'll build you a temple of mirrors so you can see them.
Andrea Gibson
Image
You have a heart of gold and I am kneeling in your bloodstream panning for the only thing that has ever felt like home.
Andrea Gibson
Image
Your ignorance keeps dismembering every piece of patience I have left.
Andrea Gibson