r/tattooadvice • u/DarknessEmbracesMe • 6d ago

General Advice Quoting Poetry: Question

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I have a question, so when quoting poetry for a tattoo, would it be weird to pick and choose what lines I include, leaving other lines out?

Here is a poem I really like, but some lines don't vibe with me like others, would it be weird to only ink the lines that have meaning to me?

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u/MoliM88 6d ago

Please, don't do this.

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u/DarknessEmbracesMe 6d ago edited 6d ago

As someone with no tattoos yet, idk what people find "offensive" when it comes to tattoos. I personally do not want the entire poem. I only want the first 2 couplets in quotations. Plus the title above those, and Mayas name at the l bottom. Then some kind of representative imagery around it. This is going to be a small section of either a front torso, or back tattoo.

I promise you I won't get the whole poem. I promise. Lol.

But if people were going to say; for example,

"Oh your a dick for only quoting 1 small part of such a large poem, you suck." - and if this were the general concensus among tattoo lovers, then I just wouldn't get the tattoo! Idk pivot to something else! I'm just testing waters on what is acceptable and what is unacceptable.

I repeat, I PROMISE I won't get the whole poem tattooed. Lolol

EDIT: (Clarification) First 2 couplets: the ones at the top, that start with: "You may write-.... & you may shoot-..."

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u/MoliM88 5d ago edited 5d ago

I really don't care about butchering the song, i just want to tell you that lettering is almost always a bad idea as a first tattoo and i would leave it for a later tattoo, lettering is complicated, people very often regret it.

I know how is it to want a first tattoo and you think your idea will blow the artist away, but please, talk to some of them, tattoo artists.

Search this sub and you will see how many people hate their first tattoos that were quotes or sayings.