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Mark Twain
“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born, and the day you figure out why.” — Mark Twain
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The Magic of Poetry
A poem may be written in the moment but it does its work in time. – Adrienne Rich
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‘You Dreamer’
Bring me all of your dreams you dreamer, bring me all your heart melodies that I may wrap them in a blue cloud-cloth from the too-rough fingers of the world – Langston Hughes
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Maya Angelou; 1928-2014
My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness. Continue to allow humour to lighten the burden of your tender heart. –...
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– Luke Dillon, Lament
“Don’t tell me that. I’ve lived in hell for the past thousand years. I spent a thousand years wishing I’d never been born. She’s the only thing that’s made my life worth living and if that’s all I get,...
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‘Perfect,’ by Bo Burnham
I love you just the way you are, but you don’t see you like I do. You shouldn’t try so hard to be perfect. Trust me, perfect should try to be you.
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Lament
“… she was an overbearing cake with condescending frosting, and frankly, I was on a diet.”
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Litany in Which Certain Things are Crossed Out
…Love always wakes the dragon and suddenly flames everywhere… – Richard Siken
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Stars should not be seen alone. That’s why there are so many. Two people should stand together and look at them. One person alone will surely miss the good ones. – Augusten Burroughs
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Morning Thoughts: 18th January 2016
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain. – “If I...
View Article– Lament: The Faerie Queen’s Deception
Do you really think God will forgive me for the blood on my hands, even if my soul was free? I’m going to hell no matter what happens. Let me have my pathetic hopeless love while I can. Just – let me...
View Article– Harper Lee
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view – until you climb into his skin and walk around in it. To Kill A Mockingbird
View ArticleA Letter Found in First Edition Copy of ‘The Great Gatsby’
For Charles T. Scott, Gatsby was never quite real to me. His original served for a good enough exterior until about the middle of the book he grew thin and I began to fill him with my own emotional...
View ArticleSing You Home – Subverted
He puts his hands on either side of my face, and the room falls away. I have never gotten so lost in a kiss before. And then, the space between us explodes. My heart keeps missing beats and my hands...
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Things are sweeter when they’re lost. I know – because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it, it turned to dust in my hand. The Beautiful...
View Article– Anonymous
“If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul, you haven’t experienced poetry.” — Edgar Allan Poe
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