36 Yrsa Daley-Ward Quotes That Will Change Your Life
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36 Yrsa Daley-Ward Quotes That Will Change Your Life

"But listen. Your life is telling you what it needs."

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36 Yrsa Daley-Ward Quotes That Will Change Your Life
Bri Flasch

    Yrsa Daley-Ward is the author of the poetry book, "Bone." She is an outstandingly honest artist that makes us not only question how we view love and the world, but also how we view ourselves. Daley-Ward challenges us in poetic matter, but is also able to make her poems simplistic and short enough to digest in one setting. I could easily rant about why I love each and every poem, but I think it's important to leave them up to interpretation. These are some of my favorite quotes pulled from her poetry books and her digital album on her personal Tumblr account.


    1. "There will be more love. There will be more love."

    2. "...love doesn’t always mean you should stay."


    3. "I bet there are millions of stories in your legs alone."


    4. "Once you know it, you can’t un-know it."


    5. "I couldn’t help noticing all of your/ alarming little details."


    6. "...when the girl is all kinds of weather in a day..."


    7. "Yesterday was a good day. You got out alive."


    8. "If you have to fold to fit in it ain’t right."


    9. "If I love you, you will know."


    10. "...where the two of you are now, in a different town /and different time, there are dogs barking outside /and you love the way /her name feels behind your mouth."


    11. "But listen. Your life is telling you what it needs."


    12. "There are parts of you that want the sadness. Find them out. Ask them why."


    13. "Romance your damn self."


    14. "You are jagged and dazzling. All of this. All of this."


    15. "I loved you. /I would have loved to keep you. /But we don’t talk at all now. /Life is like that. /Hope you’re well."


    16. "You are constantly strengthening /and your beauty is a given."


    17. "If you were married to yourself could you stay with yourself? My house would be frightening and wild.


    18. "Wherever you are, start from there."


    19. "It’s never too late to be wise. Find someone who makes your feel like you’re coming home."


    20. "Self expression is a tricky /thing. Just as you start to feel /comfortable with yourself after years /of not, you then have to justify /yourself to other people."


    21. "The pastor makes twenty-four /references to hell /in the sermon at church and forgets /to talk /about love."


    22. "If I’m entirely honest, /and you say I must be /I want to stay with you all afternoon /evening, night and tomorrow /pressed into you so tightly that we don’t /know whose belly made what sound, /whose heart it is that is thumping like that /until I don’t know if the sweat on my /chest is yours or mine or ours."


    23. "See, they never held you back. It was you, only you."


    24. "Sometimes the truth has to punch you twice."


    25. "Every time I travel, I meet myself a little more. Sometimes you have to leave all your cities to fall in love."


    26. "Just because you do it /doesn’t mean you always will. /Whether you’re dancing dust /or breathing light /you’re never exactly the same, /twice."


    27. The sparkling life is waiting but you have to pick it up."


    28. "There will always be your heart /beating /stronger and louder /the harder, the further /you run."


    29. "You’re a beautiful danger."


    30. "You walk in and the room swells."


    31. "How do you get what you want? /Design it."


    32. "We are each other’s home sweet home, love. /The roof is screwed on too tight at times /and the walls of our house can pinch a little /but my God, they’re always warm."


    33. "Just when you think you can’t anymore, there you go again."


    34. "According to you /people like me /shouldn’t go into places like this or /be around people like these /but you don’t know the half of it."


    35. "One day I will tell you what I've been. It will scare you."


    36. "Love is mostly ill advised but always brave."


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