Gabbie Hanna Poetry Quotes

#1. Now
Even the best pages
End
In dust #Quote by Hanna Abi Akl

#2. I'm sure if you see things you wrote when you were 19, you cringe. I saw stuff like angry poetry that I wrote when I was mad at my father, or photos I took where I smeared period blood on myself. It's embarrassing. #Quote by Kathleen Hanna

#3. you gave up
when i wanted to fight.
you insisted
that the future was gone,
you insisted
that you drive me home,
and the whole way
i prayed for a red light. #Quote by Gabbie Hanna

#4. For if in careless summer days
In groves of Ashtaroth we whored,
Repentant now, when winds blow cold,
We kneel before our rightful lord;
The lord of all, the money-god,
Who rules us blood and hand and brain,
Who gives the roof that stops the wind,
And, giving, takes away again;
Who spies with jealous, watchful care,
Our thoughts, our dreams, our secret ways,
Who picks our words and cuts our clothes,
And maps the pattern of our days;
Who chills our anger, curbs our hope,
And buys our lives and pays with toys,
Who claims as tribute broken faith,
Accepted insults, muted joys;
Who binds with chains the poet's wit,
The navvy's strength, the soldier's pride,
And lays the sleek, estranging shield
Between the lover and his bride. #Quote by George Orwell

#5. Boston: Their hotels are bad. Their pumpkin pies are delicious. Their poetry is not so good. #Quote by Edgar Allan Poe

#6. Not only does a good army commander not need any special qualities, on the contrary he needs the absence of the highest and best human attributes - love, poetry, tenderness, and philosophic inquiring doubt. He should be limited, firmly convinced that what he is doing is very important (otherwise he will not have sufficient patience), and only then will he be a brave leader. God forbid that he should be humane, should love, or pity, or think of what is just and unjust. #Quote by Leo Tolstoy

#7. Darling soul, some of life's richest moments come from the ability to laugh at yourself. We make errors; we blunder in the things we do. But this will never give another person the right to humiliate you.
There is no punch line in who you are.
No joke that could ever be made at the expense of your life.
If someone seeks to embarrass you, they are taking it too far. #Quote by Courtney Peppernell

#8. life is full of its ups and downs, that is why poetry was created, so our ancestors had a way to express their thoughts, ideas, love, and dislikes of the world. #Quote by Jeniann Bowers

#9. Breast-feeding does not belong in the realm of facts and hard numbers; it is much too intimate and elemental. #Quote by Hanna Rosin

#10. Don't tell me you're not beautiful. You're the kind of beautiful the blind would see if we could figure out some way to give them three seconds of sight. #Quote by Shane Koyczan

#11. A midst deceit I found the truth;
there in the rough I found a diamond.
And from the moment we met,
I think of no one else
Today I choose to be, to live and breathe;
to dream, to weep, and to sing in free verse.
And you, the object of my delight:
a like-minded opposite I am myself with,
a mind-fuck times six, seven, eight thousand and three.
I know that you love me with every inch of your deep. #Quote by Donato DiCristino

#12. There is mystery in everything," Herman whispered, almost to himself. "And so there is poetry in everything. Even something as monstrous as a whale. But how to unlock its poetry. #Quote by Mark Beauregard

#13. I paint the darkness and the silence,
You see them as stars and poetry. #Quote by Jenim Dibie

#14. To me, poetry is somebody standing up, so to speak, and saying, with as little concealment as possible, what it is for him or her to be on earth at this moment #Quote by Galway Kinnell

#15. Our poetry emulates the recent progress in military strategy: Our army's strength is the foot soldiers. #Quote by Franz Grillparzer

#16. I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve. #Quote by Philip Larkin

#17. It wasn't beautiful. A Winter wedding is a union of elation and depression, red velvet blankets in a cheap motel room stained with semen from sex devoid of meaning, and black mold clinging to the fringe of floral shower curtains like a heap of dead forevers.

You sat down at the foot of the bed, looking at me like I had already
driven away. I was thinking about watching CNN. How fucked up is that? I wanted to know that your second hand, off-white dress, and my black polyester bow tie wasn't as tragic as a hurricane devouring a suburb, or a train derailment in no where, Virginia, ending the lives of two young college hopefuls.

I was naïve. I thought that there were as many right ways to feel love as the amount of

pubic hair, 

belly lint, and

scratch marks abandoned by lovers in our honeymoon suite.

When you looked at me in bed that night, I put my hand on your chest to feel a little more human. I don't know what to call you; a name does not describe the aches, or lack of. This love is unusual and comfortable.
If you were to leave, I know I'd search for days, in newspapers and broadcasts, in car accidents and exposés on genocide in Kosovo.

(How do I address this? How is one to feel about
a love without a name?)

My heart would be ambivalent, too scared to look for you
behind the curtains of the motel window, outside in the abyss of powder and pay phones
because I don't know how to love #Quote by Lucas Regazzi

#18. You're walking by the tomb of Battiades,
Who knew well how to write poetry, and enjoy
Laughter at the right moment, over the wine. #Quote by Callimachus

#19. Like the best convenience store in the world, / the mind is always open. #Quote by Leza Lowitz

#20. Maybe poetry took the life out of both of them,
Idea and friendship. #Quote by Kenneth Koch

#21. It was when she started dealing coke so she could lose weight. It had worked, sort of. I think she still has a fat ass, and can look dumpy, and has dried-out black hair and writes awful poetry and I'm pissed off that I let her get into that position of denying me. #Quote by Bret Easton Ellis

#22. And blue-lung'd combers lumbered to the kill. #Quote by Robert Lowell

#23. Sometimes it seems like everything's changing;
my whole world is rearranging. #Quote by Amanda Leigh

#24. I have wolf blood and wolf bones... Don't expect me to graze with sheep. #Quote by Melody Lee

#25. I wonder if I might be lonelier
if I didn't have loneliness #Quote by Kelli Russell Agodon

#26. I'm a tad insane, but I promise you won't forget me. #Quote by Melody Lee

#27. We're kids, aren't we?
Yes, kids with grown-up powers. #Quote by Lang Leav

#28. Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine. #Quote by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#29. What is beautiful enchants me. I mean not just physical beauty but a wider concept of beauty. There is beauty in poetry and in great musical or singing performances. There is beauty everywhere if you can just see it. #Quote by Andrea Bocelli

#30. The vanity of the passing world and love are the two fundamental and heart-penetrating notes of true poetry. And they are two notes of which neither can be sounded without causing the other to vibrate. The feeling of the vanity of the passing world kindles love in us, the only thing that triumphs over the vain and transitory, the only thing that fills life again and eternalizes it. #Quote by Miguel De Unamuno

#31. My songs were influenced not so much by poetry on the page but by poetry being recited by the poets who recited poems with jazz bands. #Quote by Bob Dylan

#32. When I watch myself on camera, in any capacity - being interviewed, performing, 20 years ago or yesterday - there's a part of me that really doesn't grasp that it's me. #Quote by Kathleen Hanna

#33. Love was something I would not have to worry about - the whole mystery of love, heartbreak songs, and family legends. Women who pined, men who went mad, people who forgot who they were and shamed themselves with need, wanting only to be loved by the one they loved. Love was a mystery. Love was a calamity. Love was a curse that had somehow skipped me, which was no doubt why I was so good at multiple-choice tests and memorizing poetry. Sex was a country I been dragged into as an unwilling girl - sex, and the madness of the body. For all that it could terrify and confuse me, sex was something I had assimilated. Sex was a game or a weapon or an addiction. Sex was familiar. But love - love was another country. #Quote by Dorothy Allison

#34. Pain
Waves are the sea's white daughters,
And raindrops the children of rain,
But why for my shimmering body
Have I a mother like Pain?
Night is the mother of stars,
And wind the mother of foam
The world is brimming with beauty,
But I must stay at home. #Quote by Sara Teasdale

#35. We do not enjoy poetry unless we know it to be poetry. #Quote by Henry David Thoreau

#36. Oh dear sunday, I want to sleep in your arms and have fun day. #Quote by Santosh Kalwar

#37. To all those whom seek the iron words of the community: if your book is good, it will stand on its own. Be it a short story, a novel, a novella, a chapter book, a poetry book, a chapbook, a manga or a graphic novel ... it will seek reviews by itself. You need to do nothing with it. Do nothing but write. Give up review seeking and focus on writing, for that is what becomes you in the end. #Quote by L'Poni Baldwin

#38. Love discovered me all weaponless,
and opened the way to the heart through the eyes,
which are made the passageways and doors of tears:
so that it seems to me it does him little honour
to wound me with his arrow, in that state,
he not showing his bow at all to you who are armed #Quote by Francesco Petrarca

#39. Silver hidden in the gold,
Young man hidden in the old,
Laughing lord with weeping eyes,
Bring king and ring before sunrise!
-Hilarion, The Great and Terrible Quest #Quote by Margaret Lovett

#40. I've seen a lot of patriots and they all died just like anybody else if it hurt bad enough and once they were dead their patriotism was only good for legends; it was bad for their prose and made them write bad poetry. If you are going to be a great patriot i.e. loyal to any existing order of government (not one who wishes to destroy the existing for something better) you want to be killed early if your life and works won't stink. #Quote by Ernest Hemingway,

#41. Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing work that's worthy. And then see what happens. That's my advice. #Quote by Philip Levine

#42. I took a thousand breaths
But none
Could efface the one that smelled of you #Quote by Mona Soorma

#43. What, you don't think I'm capable of poetry after sex? #Quote by Richelle Mead

#44. If you look at total numbers in the working and middle class, men still on average make more than women. #Quote by Hanna Rosin

#45. 11.there will be days where you look in the mirror and want to remold your body like clay, days where you may not even want to get out of bed. on those days, it's okay to cry, to want to be different. but the next morning, remind yourself; you will be okay, you will be okay, you will be okay. #Quote by Catarine Hancock

#46. Unbeing dead isn't being alive. #Quote by E. E. Cummings