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By *inn2000 OP   Woman
over a year ago

belfast

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

The full stop, but I'm not into tattoos so probably the wrong person to be commenting here

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By *sontopMan
over a year ago

Billericay

I must learn to read I thought you was looking for taboo advice

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"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??

"

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

belfast

Or what about 'I, being poor, have only my dreams"

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By *xMFM3sumsxxWoman
over a year ago

SouthWest Lancashire

I agree don't shorten it. Maybe consider having the whole poem done in a few sessions?

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By *inn2000 OP   Woman
over a year ago

belfast

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

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

Go for:

'I would spread my legs under your feet'

in a classy font of course.

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By *harpDressed ManMan
over a year ago

Here occasionally, but mostly somewhere else

It may be shorter if done as Chinese characters...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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)
over a year ago


"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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By *unloversCouple
over a year ago

rotherham

Good luck with all that

I love tattoos but just would t be that brave to have all that on my body

If it has a true meaning to you then go with it

Xxx

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By *ellbound_GhoulwarpWoman
over a year ago

Fifth Circle of Hell


"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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By *rongstantineWoman
over a year ago

hull

Don't get it on your side, it'll have to be quite small and writing never holds up that well.

Hope you manage to figure it out though.

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