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By lookingformargo SILVER
Ithaca, New York

We sat in a brightly lit kitchen Reenacting old arguments Like Shakespearean works Old with an immediacy we can't seem to shake We'd forgotten the lines we wrote...
lookingformargo SILVER, Ithaca, New York
8 articles 0 photos 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
A child said, &quot;What is the grass?&quot; fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he. I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven... and now it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves. -Walt Whitman, Leaves Of Grass<br /> <br /> <br /> We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and falling. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail. -Looking For Alaska<br /> <br /> Here&#039;s what&#039;s not beautiful about it: from here, you can&#039;t see the rust or the cracked paint or whatever, but you can tell what the place really is. You see how fake it all is. It&#039;s not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It&#039;s a paper town. I mean look at it, Q: look at all those cul-de-sacs, those streets that turn in on themselves, all the houses that were built to fall apart. All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm. All the paper kids drinking beer some bum bought for them at the paper convenience store. Everyone demented with the mania of owning things. All the things paper-thin and paper-frail. And all the people, too. I&#039;ve lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters. -Paper Towns<br /> <br /> It is so hard to leave&mdash;until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world. -Paper Towns<br /> <br /> Elsewhere the landscape is more frank.<br /> The light falls without letup, blindingly. - A Life, Sylvia Plath


#227172 Poetry
By BeLoveToday PLATINUM
Manchester, New Hampshire
BeLoveToday PLATINUM, Manchester, New Hampshire
24 articles 0 photos 8 comments

Favorite Quote:
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. <br /> -Nelson Mandela<br /> <br /> &quot;Leave your fear of love behind, <br /> let your dreaming be your guide.<br /> If you seek, than you shall find.&quot;<br /> -&quot;Dreamer,&quot; by Elizaveta

#227173 Poetry
By Michael Foulkes BRONZE
Mequon, Wisconsin
Michael Foulkes BRONZE, Mequon, Wisconsin
2 articles 0 photos 0 comments
#227174 Poetry
By FutureWriter96 BRONZE
Fanwood, New Jersey
FutureWriter96 BRONZE, Fanwood, New Jersey
1 article 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
&ldquo;We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.&rdquo; <br /> ― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

#227175 Poetry
By Paigebullard BRONZE
League City, Texas
Paigebullard BRONZE, League City, Texas
1 article 0 photos 0 comments
#227176 Poetry
Carli-Sprague SILVER, Oshkosh, Wisconsin
5 articles 0 photos 0 comments
#227177 Poetry
By Anonymous
#227178 Poetry
shouting2Bsilent PLATINUM, Chicago, Illinois
31 articles 2 photos 8 comments

Favorite Quote:
Feet, what do I need you for if I have wings to fly?

#227179 Poetry
By jazzychild SILVER
SAN ANTONIO, Texas
jazzychild SILVER, SAN ANTONIO, Texas
8 articles 0 photos 3 comments
#227180 Poetry
By jesse.jay PLATINUM
Kissimmee, Florida
jesse.jay PLATINUM, Kissimmee, Florida
22 articles 0 photos 12 comments

Favorite Quote:
life goes on