This tattoo was submitted by Sarah Bohr:

My tattoo is a tribute to J.R.R. Tolkien, whom I’ve had a lifelong relationship with through his books. I first read The Hobbit when I was four and five (it took me a while) and Tolkien has been a major influence in my life ever since. It’s also a tribute to my family – the outer ring of the tattoo is the language Quenya written in the Tengwar script, and is the first and middle names of myself and my immediate family. I included my own name because I am named after a close aunt and great grandmother. I translated and designed the tattoo myself, and my baby brother (a 23 year-old professional tattoo artist) did the inkwork.

(28 votes, average: 4.11 out of 5)

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Artwork from Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince) by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

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(58 votes, average: 4.60 out of 5)

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This tattoo was submitted by Austin:

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”

- Ernest Hemingway

(34 votes, average: 4.03 out of 5)

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Modblog posted this yesterday:

Her right leg is the lyrics from “The Goodbye Song” by New Found Glory.  Her left leg is the lyrics from “If You Do, If You Don’t” by Cartel.

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(120 votes, average: 1.37 out of 5)

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The head Sublime, the heart Pathos, the genitals Beauty, the hands & feet Proportion.
As the air to a bird or the sea to a fish, so is contempt to the contemptible.
The crow wish’d every thing was black, the owl, that every thing was white.
Exuberance is Beauty.
If the lion was advised by the fox. he would be cunning.
Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
Sooner murder an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.
Where man is not, nature is barren.
Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believ’d.
Enough! or Too much.

- Excerpt from “Proverbs of Hell” in William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

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(23 votes, average: 3.78 out of 5)

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All the Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas
Layin’ in the sun,
Talkin’ ’bout the things
They woulda coulda shoulda done…
But those Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas
All ran away and hid
From one little Did.

- Woulda Coulda Shoulda by Shel Silverstein (from Falling Up)

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(43 votes, average: 4.09 out of 5)

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“Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt.”

- Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

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(24 votes, average: 3.63 out of 5)

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Dr. Seuss sleeve submitted by Jenny:

The reason i chose Dr. seuss for my left sleeve is because of his background and his amazing stories. He started out drawing cartoons and making anti-nazi war propoganda during WWII …I love his stories because they all have fantastic morals, and are all about understanding and being anti-racist and against discrimination. I admire him very much.

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(26 votes, average: 3.31 out of 5)

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be of love (a little) more careful
than of everything
guard her perhaps only
A trifle less (merely beyond how very)
closely than nothing
remember love by frequent
anguish (imagine
her least never with most
memory)
give entirely each
forever its freedom

(dare until a flower,
understanding ceaselessly sunlight
open what thousandth why and
discover laughing)

- e. e. cummings, be of love (a little)

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(28 votes, average: 3.64 out of 5)

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From The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath.

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(24 votes, average: 3.54 out of 5)

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