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.
Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.
I pray every night that I may live after him; because I would rather be miserable than that he should be — that proves I love him better than myself.
If I belittle those whom I am called to serve, talk of their weak points in contrast perhaps with what I think of as my strong points; if I adopt a superior attitude, forgetting "Who made thee to differ? and what hast thou that thou hast not received?" then I know nothing of Calvary love.
I never told my love vocally still.
Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does.
I don't do great things. I do small things with great love.
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