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By *inn2000 OP Woman
over a year ago
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I want to get a quotation from my favourite poem as a tattoo - but which phrase? I am not brave enough to get the whole poem tattooed on my side which is what I would really like...
HAD I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
I am thinking either ' tread softly because you tread on my dreams'
or just 'tread softly'
or 'the cloths of heaven'
Suggestions??
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I want to get a quotation from my favourite poem as a tattoo - but which phrase? I am not brave enough to get the whole poem tattooed on my side which is what I would really like...
HAD I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
I am thinking either ' tread softly because you tread on my dreams'
or just 'tread softly'
or 'the cloths of heaven'
Suggestions??
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Nice poem and all that but I've got to be honest it's not the best to try and shorten |
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By *inn2000 OP Woman
over a year ago
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Oh god I am in hysterics now - I put the poem through Gizoogle...
HAD I tha heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought wit golden n' silver light,
Da blue n' tha dim n' tha dark cloths
Of night n' light n' tha half-light,
I would spread tha cloths under yo' feet:
But I, bein skanky, have only mah dreams;
I have spread mah trips under yo' feet;
Tread softly cuz you tread on mah dreams. Boy it's gettin hot, yes indeed it is.
Lil' Willy Butla Yeats
so the verdict is... 'but I being skanky ' |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Don’t cut it short
But in terms of actual tattooing time, for what I’m presuming will be quite small text, it won’t take that long to do.
Or cut it into two sessions |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Take your ideas to a tattoo artist or two
Ask them to interpret it and suggest designs that encompass the message
If you aren't 100% happy with the artist, the design and the placement, don't do it
I have a few tattoos, one of them is based on a poem - I sent a copy of the poem to an artist by email
He was in Portsmouth, I was in Manchester. We met in the middle at a tattoo convention in Telford.
It took time to pull together, but it's with me for life so I had to be 100% on board with it |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I want to get a quotation from my favourite poem as a tattoo - but which phrase? I am not brave enough to get the whole poem tattooed on my side which is what I would really like...
HAD I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
I am thinking either ' tread softly because you tread on my dreams'
or just 'tread softly'
or 'the cloths of heaven'
Suggestions??
"
I agree, 'tread softly because you tread on my dreams'. |
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"Take your ideas to a tattoo artist or two
Ask them to interpret it and suggest designs that encompass the message
If you aren't 100% happy with the artist, the design and the placement, don't do it
I have a few tattoos, one of them is based on a poem - I sent a copy of the poem to an artist by email
He was in Portsmouth, I was in Manchester. We met in the middle at a tattoo convention in Telford.
It took time to pull together, but it's with me for life so I had to be 100% on board with it"
I agree, go speak to a few artists and get their input.
But the best piece of advice, when your happy with placement etc, check it real careful before he/she puts the gun to your skin!
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