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.
Here's my advice to you: don't marry until you can tell yourself that you've done all you could, and until you've stopped loving the women you've chosen, until you see her clearly, otherwise you'll be cruelly and irremediably mistaken. Marry when you're old and good for nothing...Otherwise all that's good and lofty in you will be lost.
I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.
Such an act_x000D_ _x000D_ That blurs the grace and blush of modesty;_x000D_ _x000D_ Calls virtue hypocrite; takes off the rose_x000D_ _x000D_ From the fair forehead of an innocent love,_x000D_ _x000D_ And sets a blister there; makes marriage vows_x000D_ _x000D_ As false as dicers' oaths.
It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them a love that was not theirs.
Christ not only died for all: He died for each.
But I really wanted to find it for you. And when it looked in the end like it wasn't going to turn up, I just said to myself, one day I'll go to Norfolk and I'll find it there for her.' 'The lost corner of England,' I said.
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