infinitebutterflies:

fuckyeahtattoos:

scrivo I vivo

Italian for “I write” I “I live”

Taken from Puccini’s opera La Boheme

The song: Che Gelida Manina (what a frozen little hand), in which the main character, a poet, meets the girl for the first time.  She says she has no way of knowing what kind of a person he is, and he responds by saying “What do I do? I write. How do I live? I live.”

“scrivo” is in my father’s handwriting, “vivo” is my mother’s.

I got this done in italy this summer.  It is a tattoo I have wanted since I was 18 (I am 25 now) and a phrase that has become a sort of personal mantra for me.

via: Kate

Oh my god I want want want!