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.
[T]o love a specific person, and to identify with his or her struggles and joys as if they were your own, you have to surrender some of your self.
God mark thee to His grace! Thou was the prettiest babe that e'er I nursed. And might I live to see thee married once, I have my wish.
Love finds an altar for forbidden fires.
No pictorial or sculptural combinations of points of human loveliness, do more than approach the living and breathing human beauty as it gladdens our daily path.
Remember. The way you make love is the way God will be with you.
In contrast to a dream a reverie cannot be recounted. To be communicated, it must be written, written with emotion and taste, being relived all the more strongly because it is being written down. Here, we are touching the realm of written love. It is going out of fashion, but the benefits remain. There are still souls for whom love is the contact of two poetries, the fusion of two reveries.
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