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By mynameisnothabib GOLD
Quinlan, Texas

I want to be someone's Inspiration. To have them look at me like My words can save them To have them tell me... "Your poetry saved my life....
mynameisnothabib GOLD, Quinlan, Texas
10 articles 5 photos 28 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;One idea lights a thousand candles&quot;<br /> ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


SpeakerOfTheDead PLATINUM, Lemont, Illinois
27 articles 31 photos 20 comments

Favorite Quote:
&ldquo;How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.&rdquo; <br /> ― Henry David Thoreau

CookieMonster24 PLATINUM, Delhi, Other
25 articles 2 photos 147 comments
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By freeperson DIAMOND
Burlington, Vermont
freeperson DIAMOND, Burlington, Vermont
59 articles 0 photos 229 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Have you seen the way he looks at you, the way his expression softens and his eyes are like stars...?&quot; - Ara Weston

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By FinnWinterfall GOLD
Rochester, Massachusetts
FinnWinterfall GOLD, Rochester, Massachusetts
10 articles 0 photos 9 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;There, there.&quot;

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By theblondechick GOLD
Kingsport, Tennessee
theblondechick GOLD, Kingsport, Tennessee
14 articles 0 photos 104 comments

Favorite Quote:
I want to live and feel all the shades, tones, and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. <br /> And I am horribly limited. <br /> -Sylvia Path

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By sharkie GOLD
Singapore, Other
sharkie GOLD, Singapore, Other
13 articles 0 photos 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
&quot;That was his mistake right there. Writers aren&#039;t supposed to be vulnerably bare and ardently honest; we&#039;re supposed to be ironic, offhand, self-deprecating, deflectingly clever, stingingly derisive, and act as if we&#039;re all in this apart.&quot;

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By Honour SILVER
New London, Connecticut
Honour SILVER, New London, Connecticut
9 articles 0 photos 181 comments

Favorite Quote:
Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. ~John 15:13<br /> <br /> &quot;Give me liberty or give me death!&quot; ~Patrick Henry<br /> <br /> Be brave and steadfast; have no fear or dread of them, for it is the Lord, your God, who marches with you; he will never fail you or forsake you. ~ Deuteronomy 31:6<br /> <br /> &quot;I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery&quot; ~ Thomas Jefferson

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By deafening-fan GOLD
Kutztown, Pennsylvania
deafening-fan GOLD, Kutztown, Pennsylvania
10 articles 1 photo 17 comments

Favorite Quote:
&ldquo;If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.&rdquo; <br /> ― J.R.R. Tolkien

Forever-A-Camper BRONZE, Blacksburg, Virginia
3 articles 0 photos 6 comments

Favorite Quote:
Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.