Andrea Michelle > Quotes

“This world is divided between feelers and thinkers. Spirits and minds.  ”
― Andrea Michelle, Kalopsia: The Best Contemporary, Modern Poetry for Young People for Free!

“If I could, I would bottle your laugh and drink it so that the feeling you give me would forever live inside.”
― Andrea Michelle, Kalopsia: The Best Contemporary, Modern Poetry for Young People for Free!

“You needn't consume every opinion placed before you.   If the fruit is rotten, do you eat it?  ”
― Andrea Michelle, Kalopsia: The Best Contemporary, Modern Poetry for Young People for Free!

“The world is broken there's no doubt of that. But she saw the art of each uniquely shaped shard and that made all the difference.  ”
― Andrea Michelle, Kalopsia: The Best Contemporary, Modern Poetry for Young People for Free!

“She said, “When I was young, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.” He said, “And what did you say?” “Some days a doctor, some days a teacher.” Then silence filled the gap between their lips. The kind of silence that whispered memories, smelled of change, a passing from one self to another. “And now? What do you want to be now?” He questioned. “Kind. And good. And happy. I don't really think anything else matters.”  ”
― Andrea Michelle, Kalopsia: The Best Contemporary, Modern Poetry for Young People for Free!

“Stay away. Do not paint me in shades of love and claim me your masterpiece. I am not one to be hung on a wall, chained and imprisoned by affection and adoration. You believe me a rose but you are mistaken.   I am the wind and I will steal away your beauty as the wind often does of dandelions. And when I am done you will feel as a weed.   With a final kiss I will travel on. My love, I do not want to strip you bare.  ”
― Andrea Michelle, Kalopsia: The Best Contemporary, Modern Poetry for Young People for Free!

“I saw it, the first time I looked in her eyes. The language that lived within her. It was a language that has no name. It cannot be seen. It cannot be heard. All I can say is, her heart must beat the same rhythm as mine and mine must have known it. She was the greatest poem never written. The greatest song never sung. She was art. Before its creation. After its completion. Forever lovely. Timelessly perfect.”
― Andrea Michelle, Kalopsia: The Best Contemporary, Modern Poetry for Young People for Free!

“That word, “unrealistic”, quivering on their lips, is but a declaration of their own fear. Perhaps your reality is greater than theirs. Perhaps, they should've dreamed harder.  ”
― Andrea Michelle, Kalopsia: The Best Contemporary, Modern Poetry for Young People for Free!

“After all, the purpose of growing up is not to become an adult. The purpose of growing up is to take each experience and use them as tools to shape yourself into the exact person you desire to be.  ”
― Andrea Michelle, Kalopsia: The Best Contemporary, Modern Poetry for Young People for Free!

“I am a feeler. To be a feeler is to live an internal life. I recognize my body as a vessel protecting the spirit that I am. And I see a world of bodies obsessed with bodies. To be a feeler is to connect to energy. What I feel, I absorb. What you feel, I feel, often before you feel it yourself. I deal with the heart”
― Andrea Michelle, Kalopsia: The Best Contemporary, Modern Poetry for Young People for Free!

“Have you ever seen a storm roll in? That's the way she loved. A drop or two to start. Then the flood.  ”
― Andrea Michelle, Kalopsia: The Best Contemporary, Modern Poetry for Young People for Free!

“We need to breathe in order to live, yet we live for the moments that take our breath away. We need our heartbeat in order to live, yet we seek a love that is heart stopping. Maybe we don't need to live. Maybe we need only to be alive.”
― Andrea Michelle, Kalopsia: The Best Contemporary, Modern Poetry for Young People for Free!

“Greatness is not found in the victories, the championships, the success. Greatness is found, instead, within the tears and the pain, within each moment you face the temptation of giving up and say, not today.”
― Andrea Michelle, Kalopsia: The Best Contemporary, Modern Poetry for Young People for Free!

“We buried our pains alive but they didn't die. In fact, they grew, because we kept feeding them. We didn't mean to but we kept feeding them. And now they are digging their way north. I can feel it, rumbling beneath my soul. And all that's left is to wait for the earth to crack and we'll fall away and apart, until we no longer are you and me but the hardships we so innocently planted.”
― Andrea Michelle, Kalopsia: The Best Contemporary, Modern Poetry for Young People for Free!

“I have a hard time understanding the hypocrisy of the world and it can anger me.”
― Andrea Michelle, Kalopsia: The Best Contemporary, Modern Poetry for Young People for Free!

“I let go. Let go of sharp emotions held so tight like a beautiful piece of glass jagged and piercing boiling blood spilling unbeknownst. This cherished glass escaping me at last returning as innocent sand falling from this reddened hand smooth and cold through fingertips raw collecting with a world of bitterness ready to be washed away and this forgiveness cleansed me new.”
― Andrea Michelle, Kalopsia: The Best Contemporary, Modern Poetry for Young People for Free!

“If I could, I would bottle your laugh and drink it so that the feeling you give me would forever live inside.  ”
― Andrea Michelle, Kalopsia: The Best Contemporary, Modern Poetry for Young People for Free!

“She had a very cross look about her. So, I asked what was wrong. “Everything. Everything's wrong. And it's the fairy tales to blame. Good beats evil. Happily ever after. The world so desperately claims to be a princess, a knight, a hero. A good guy. But I've seen inside myself and I'm none of these things. But I look at the villains. The villains who made mistakes then hated themselves for it. The villains who know what it's like to lose themselves. The villains who are angry and bitter and desperate, the results of fractured dreams and slaughtered hopes. No one bothers with the 'why?' They think, 'They must have been born evil.' But they weren't. And I know. Because I wasn't either.” She breathed. And we sat there. Two”
― Andrea Michelle, Kalopsia: The Best Contemporary, Modern Poetry for Young People for Free!

“Greatness is not found in the victories, the championships, the success. Greatness is found, instead, within the tears and the pain, within each moment you face the temptation of giving up and say, not today.”
― Andrea Michelle, Kalopsia: The Best Contemporary, Modern Poetry for Young People for Free!

“And she wondered just how she was supposed to decide what to do with her life when she couldn't even decide on breakfast.”
― Andrea Michelle, Kalopsia: The Best Contemporary, Modern Poetry for Young People for Free!

“In the wind of your words carried the dust of bones the dried and deserted remains of a world we crafted. All I wanted to know was whether or not these souls supplied enough stardust to rebuild a fallen galaxy.”
― Andrea Michelle, Kalopsia: The Best Contemporary, Modern Poetry for Young People for Free!

“Of one thing I'm sure; love is supposed to change you.”
― Andrea Michelle, Kalopsia: The Best Contemporary, Modern Poetry for Young People for Free!

“It wasn't the red of blood that sustained her but the red of passion. And when she filled my veins with her love, she gave my heart a reason to beat.”
― Andrea Michelle, Kalopsia: The Best Contemporary, Modern Poetry for Young People for Free!

“My favorite place to be was close to her. Close enough that I could count the freckles on her nose,”
― Andrea Michelle, Kalopsia: The Best Contemporary, Modern Poetry for Young People for Free!

“Life left me with a hole in my chest where all pieces of my heart has crumbled, carried away with the wind and yet, because I carry love in my eyes, I see only the golden glow of war and I give thanks not for the beauty of the sunrise but for eyes that continue to see the light.”
― Andrea Michelle, Kalopsia: The Best Contemporary, Modern Poetry for Young People for Free!

“Once upon a time I wrote a love note to give you if ever we met and I used every word I knew to mean I love you so you'd know my heart you kept. Yet, how strange, as time wondered by, I saw more of myself than you and I knew the self that I was would never be half of your two. So I took flame to this page and sent my words to the sky and forever I'll hide from sight, living in a world of what could have beens and once upon a times.”
― Andrea Michelle, Kalopsia: The Best Contemporary, Modern Poetry for Young People for Free!

“You told me things. Personal things. You came to me with words naked, raw, intimate. We spend the night, hand in hand, our lips sharing stories, our souls making love.  ”
― Andrea Michelle, Kalopsia: The Best Contemporary, Modern Poetry for Young People for Free!

“It is a foolish artist who paints in black and blames the canvas for its darkness.”
― Andrea Michelle, Kalopsia: The Best Contemporary, Modern Poetry for Young People for Free!

“My spirit must be as restless as the wind, for it longs to crash through the cages of my ribs and melt into the air waves. To sing with the songbirds. To shout with thunder. The earth and its roots shame me but I wasn't born to conform; a rain drop stripped of independence, forced into oneness with the sea. I crave the fearful, uncontrollable, unstable atmosphere within the clouds. I guess my heart knows not my lack of wings, or perhaps we are all too concerned with what's in front of our face to notice the wings beneath our skin.  ”
― Andrea Michelle, Kalopsia: The Best Contemporary, Modern Poetry for Young People for Free!

“I saw it, the first time I looked in her eyes. The language that lived within her. It was a language that has no name. It cannot be seen. It cannot be heard. All I can say is, her heart must beat the same rhythm as mine and mine must have known it. She was the greatest poem never written. The greatest song never sung. She was art. Before its creation. After its completion. Forever lovely. Timelessly perfect.                               This world is divided between feelers and thinkers. Spirits and minds.”
― Andrea Michelle, Kalopsia: The Best Contemporary, Modern Poetry for Young People for Free!