Atticus Poetry Quotes

Don't waste any more tomorrows
on someone who wastes your todays.

There's too much risk in loving,'
the young boy said,
'no,'
said the old man,
'there's too much risk in not.

You think you are alone
but you're not
we are here
and a million others too
all scared
all confused
all worried it might never change
but here is the big secret
the one they don't tell you
you're doing it right
just by living,
and everything
will be okay.

Daughter of mine -
for your smiles,
for your tears,
for your skinned knees,
and your broken hearts,
for the love you give,
and the love you find.
For whatever you become,
or don't,
it is far too late,
I love you already,
long before
we ever meet

My love,
you have
too many smiles left in you
to be so sad.

Alone we live short rebellions of death,
together we defy it

She was cool -
the whole world
seemed
to spin around her
in smooth jazz.

LOVE
COULD
BE
LABLED
POISON
AND WE'D
DRINK
IT
ANYWAYS.

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

I told her I was lost in this world, and she smiled, because she was too. We were all lost somehow but we didn't care, we had in the chaos found each other.

She was another broken doll dreaming of a boy with glue.

We humans
are so tortured
by not properly guessing
what will make us happy.

she couldn't feel her wings
but knew they were there
so she built a ladder
that led to the sky
and when she touched the clouds
she remembered how to fly.

She reminded me of dusk
and the inevitable fading
of all beautiful things.

Never go in search of love, go in search of life, and life will find you the love you seek.

Love
by its very nature
is fragile
and that's what makes
true love
so powerful -
you make a fragile thing
strong

The hardest step we all must take is blindly trust in who we are.

HE SHIELDED
HER HEART
LIKE A FLAME
IN A STORM -
HIS BACK
AGAINST
THE WIND.

Break my heart and you will find yourself inside.

the way she talked
about the things she loved
made the whole room turn
to see what shone

LIFE IS
A JOURNEY
TO FIND
THE
PEOPLE
WEIRD
LIKE YOU.

- ATTICUS

She was always wild but he had made her free.

If I had all the treasure in the world,
I would follow my dreams,
play with my children,
and spend time with my wife."
"No,"
said the old man.
"If you followed your dreams,
played with your children,
and spent time with your wife,
you would have all the treasure in the world

The problem with dating
these days
is that we compare real
humans
to the perfect potential
of everyone we haven't met
yet.

You and I
will be
lost and found
a thousand times
along this
cobbled
road of us.

Find someone and live in awe of them.

I'll let you into my heart
but wipe your feet at the door.

Don't hide from heartbreak
for it will show you more truth
than a thousand happy days
live in it, soak in it
and let it evolve you
into your next greater form.

Wine so delicately
pulls from us
all the stories
we hadn't planned to tell.

It's good to be with someone
who has been through hell -
life is hard,
and strange,
and a lot of shit happens.
And when someone's been through the
worst of it already,
pain doesn't come as much of a surprise,
they just
sit down
tie their shoelaces
wave to old demons,
and get on with it.

She found herself
over a long
and treacherous road
and the more
treacherous
the road became,
the more of
herself
she found.

I WANT TO BE WITH SOMEONE WHO DREAMS OF DOING EVERYTHING IN LIFE
AND NOTHING ON RAINY SUNDAY AFTERNOONS.

Time is all we have and don't.

Never doubt magic
as long as there are shooting stars,
fireflies,
and love
in a little girl's heart.

She walked
through life
with the eyes
of a wolf
who belonged to no one
but the night.

She had just enough madness to make her interesting

Chase your stars fool, life is short.

She wore the moonlight like lingerie.

Do not fall in love with me, for I will break your heart, long before you realize, you were going to break mine.

There is nothing
prettier in the
whole wide world
than a girl
in love
with every breath she takes.

A sky
full
of stars
and he
was staring
at her.

- ATTICUS

The prettiest girls shine brightest in the dark.

Our
songs
live
longer
than
our
kingdoms.

Some nights you drink tea, some nights you drink whisky.

Don't be scared to change the prince's name in your story.

Dare to believe
the whispers in your ear,
that you might be special,
that you might be meaningful,
that one day
you might change the world.
It's us you see,
the ones who listen,
that will change everything.

Boys learn too late that being the man, is not the same thing as being a man.

In her heart and soul she set fire to all things that held her back and from the ashes she stepped into who she always was.

Words
will
scratch
more
hearts
than
swords.

True love happens at the edge of all things
a lavender place between wake & sleep.

I want to know every part of you,
every scar,
every bruise,
I want to trace the map of you,
my fingers a compass,
your freckles the constellations
which in my heart I will chart
so when I close my eyes
I'll have you in my stars forever.

You weren't given wings
to see the world from a tree.

She conquered her demons and wore her scars like wings.

Loving him
was like sinking into a warm bath
lying there in the soft safety of his silence.

She had the whisky licking, skinny dipping smile.

I won't ever find the words for you -
you are my everything always
and even that is not enough.

It was her chaos that made her beautiful.

You will find
that most of life's
toughest
and more existential
questions
can be solved
or indefinitely postponed
by spending more time
around the people you love.

Love her but leave her wild

My atoms love you atoms, it's chemistry.

Silly girl,"
the old lady laughed,
"your
different
is
your
beautiful

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From the moment I saw her I knew this one was worth a broken heart.

The world's perception of you
exists only in memories.
Give them new ones

Silly girl, your different was your beautiful all along.

A few drinks and the world was hers -
she wore her whiskey like a loaded gun.

We all wear masks,
some with makeup
some with smiles
some with wives or husbands
cars or clothes
we hide from the world
and from ourselves
we hide from our truths
behind our eyes
running always from our real
but somewhere there
where truth meets courage
we are waiting to be found

don't promise to live forever
promise to forever live while you're alive

I think it's beautiful
the way you sparkle
when you talk about
the things you love.

Brushing a girl's hair
behind her ear
once a day
will solve more problems
than all those
therapists
and drugs.

Dying is the easy part
living is the trick.

Each beautiful thing
we love
starts first as the dirt
of dust
and
stars.

Don't ask her to be a rock
for you to lean upon
instead, build her wings
and point her to the sky
and she will teach you both to fly.

You are worth your imperfections
you are worth your bad days
you are worth your good
you are worth your confusion
you are worth your insecurities
you are worth fighting for
and you are worth loving.
And that's a fck'ing fact.

Songs live longer than kingdoms.

There are magnets in my bones for that iron in her blood.

Some moments
like some people
are not meant
to be fully understood
so for now
it's best
we just call them miracles.

And as I sat and looked at her
and the rolling hills she sat upon
I thought, what amazing luck I have
that the world had created
such beautiful things
and given me the eyes to see them.

She wasn't looking for a knight, she was looking for a sword.

LIFE
IS THE ART
OF FAILING
MAGNIFICENTLY.

It was never the way she looked
always the way she was
I would have fallen in love with her
with my eyes closed.

Poets are souls at war with words
from battles waged within.

She sat in her perfect house,
with her perfect husband,
wishing that her perfect life
would end.

I am the great illusion of myself.

The doubters are just dreamers with broken hearts.

If I conquered all my demons
there wouldn't be much left of me.

Sometimes,
to be alone is the best company

Put a girl in
moonlight
and tell only truths
and every man
becomes a poet.

She walked
through her life
heavy
from the
mighty wings
upon her back.

You deserve to be the person you were meant to be.

Watch carefully
the magic that occurs
when you give a person
enough comfort
to just be themselves.

I am not perfect for you, but I will always imperfectly try to be.

We are made of those who have built and broken us.

I just need you and some sunsets.

She wasn't looking for the perfect person
she was looking for someone
to catch her imagination
and remind her what she was looking for.

That was her magic -
she could still see
the sunset
even on those
darkest days.

Keep your bustling cities,
give me only the moon,
some wine, and old friends
laughing in the desert,
and I will show you
what the
pagans
called god

One of those forever kinds of friends
where anything can happen
and nothing will change--
they just always are
and forever will be.

Love
is a strange magic,
where death
can only make it stronger
while the softest kiss
in the wrong direction,
can steal it away forever

Adventure runs on all sorts of whiskey.

We are all wolves, howling to the same moon.