You’re beautiful because when you were born, undiscovered planets lined up to peep over the rim of your cradle and lay gifts of gravity and light at your miniature feet
Interpretation
This quote expresses the uniqueness and extraordinary beauty of a person at birth.
Simon Armitage's quote celebrates the innate beauty and special qualities that each person possesses from the moment of their birth. It suggests that the universe itself recognizes and honors this beauty, as if celestial bodies are positioned to admire and bestow gifts upon the newborn, symbolizing the idea that every individual is extraordinary and deserving of love and admiration.
In practice
During a speech at a baby shower, one might read this quote to celebrate the arrival of a new life.
It’s never going to be very mainstream. One reason is that poetry requires concentration, both on the part of the writer and the reader. But it’s kind of unkillable, poetry. It’s our most ancient artform and I think it’s more relevant today than ever, because it’s one person saying what they really believe.
Be compassionate," Morrie whispered. And take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be so much better a place." He took a breath, then added his mantra: "Love each other or die.
Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.
The soul is made of love and must ever strive to return to love. Therefore, it can never find rest nor happiness in other things. It must lose itself in love. By its very nature it must seek God, who is love.
Where there is no love, pour love in, and you will draw love out.
And the flavor of Pippa's kiss--bittersweet and strange--stayed with me all the way back uptown, swaying and sleepy as I sailed home on the bus, melting with sorrow and loveliness, a starry ache that lifted me up above the windswept city like a kite: my head in the rainclouds, my heart in the sky.
It was the year they fell into devastating love. Neither one could do anything except think about the other, dream about the other, and wait for letters with the same impatience they felt when they answered them.
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