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Ashe Vernon Quotes

Total quotes: 14
“there are poets who sing you to sleep
and poets who ready you for war
and i want to be both.”
— Ashe Vernon, via Tumblr
Tagged: Poetic, Poetry, Poets
“find the pocket of your heartbeat
where you keep forgiveness.
we will try again tomorrow”
— Ashe Vernon, Post-Panic Attack
Tagged: Poetry, Panic, Panic Attacks, Anxiety, Mental Health
“we study them in school, the tortured artists.
look at all the poets who killed themselves
what would their work have been without their depression?”
— Ashe Vernon, When They Talk About The Tortured Genius
Tagged: Art, Mental Health, Tortured Artist, Tortured Genius, Depression, Artists
“I don’t know how to not
love people when they’re hurting.
I guess that’s why I keep falling in love
with open wounds and then not understanding
when we are nothing but blood
in a lifeboat.”
— Ashe Vernon, Lonely Poets Puts Words To It
Tagged: Falling In Love, Hurting, wounds, Poetry
“Your hands unzip me one breath at a time; there is not room beneath my skin for all of you and I spill over the edges with a sigh.”
— Ashe Vernon, Literary Sexts
“give me cheap beer and country back roads–
the hum of the engine as we climb through the roof
towards a sky with no sun.”
— Ashe Vernon, Roadtripping
Tagged: Poetry, Love, Nostalgia, poem
“sext: I guess my soul just stumbled into your heartbeat and realized it liked the sound.”
— Ashe Vernon, Literary Sext
Tagged: Literary Sext
“You are a language I am no longer fluent in
but still remember how to read.”
— Ashe Vernon, Wrong Side of a Fistfight
Tagged: Language, Read, Love, Missing
“I am not hungry, but I will eat 
because my stomach is the kind 
of empty 
I can fill.”
— Ashe Vernon, BREAK UP BLUES
Tagged: Hunger, Lust, Emptiness, Cheating, Dating, Poetry
“I am a cathedral of almost-lovers.”
— Ashe Vernon, “Here is Your Altar for Worship
Tagged: Love, romance, Almost Love, Almost Lover, Almost Relationships, Love & Relationships
“Trouble is, I love better at a distance...”
— Ashe Vernon, Wrong Side of a Fistfight
Tagged: Love, Love & Relationships, Relationships, Unrequited Love, having crush on someone, Crush, hidden feelings
“Why should I blame my open heart for someone else’s robbery?”
— Ashe Vernon, Ashe Vernon- "Open Heart Policy" // Fresh Takes @WANPOETRY (TGS 2016)
Tagged: Love, How To Love, How to be good at love, Breaking Up
“I fought for you
and I shouldn’t
have had to.”
— Ashe Vernon, Post-Panic Attack
Tagged: Fight for Love
“sext: people died for you.
I bet you liked it.
sext: they say Helen’s was the face
that launched a thousand ships
but she’s got nothing on you.
sext: good men took up arms and you
torched a city to the ground.
sext: But, oh, the roar of victory.
You must have been so proud.”
— Ashe Vernon, HOW TO MAKE LOVE TO THE GOD OF WAR
Tagged: Literary Sext
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