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#356551voted by our readers
By Matt27 SILVER
Englewood, Colorado

Jazz ain't no thing to understand, You gotta dig it. Deep in that Freudian id, Long past any conceptualized being, Dig it primal-like. Like a beating drum, Vibrating...
Matt27 SILVER, Englewood, Colorado
8 articles 0 photos 21 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Outsiders who see rules and not the love that runs through them are often too ready to label other people as 'prisoners'." -Iris Murdoch in The Sea, The Sea


#356552 Poetry
By One_so_fair_as_Love SILVER
East Flat Rock, North Carolina
One_so_fair_as_Love SILVER, East Flat Rock, North Carolina
8 articles 1 photo 7 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;When I saw you, I fell in love. You smiled because you knew.&quot; ~William Shakespeare~<br /> &quot;There is no theory in criminal conspiricy.&quot;<br /> &quot;It is no distant possiblility.&quot; ~Moi

#356553 Poetry
By MeeSoh SILVER
APO AP, Other
MeeSoh SILVER, APO AP, Other
5 articles 1 photo 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;everything extraneous has burned away<br /> this is how burning feels in the fall<br /> of the final year not like leaves in a blue<br /> October but as if the skin were a paper lantern<br /> full of trapped moths beating their fired wings...&quot; -Paul Monette

#356554 Poetry
By nyctophopicninja BRONZE
Coronado, California
nyctophopicninja BRONZE, Coronado, California
1 article 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
Fortune favors me

#356555 Poetry
By alese SILVER
Cannon Falls, Minnesota
alese SILVER, Cannon Falls, Minnesota
8 articles 0 photos 0 comments
#356556 Poetry
By inaju2003 BRONZE
Kolkata, Other
inaju2003 BRONZE, Kolkata, Other
3 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
We are such stuff<br /> As dreams are made on; and our little life<br /> Is rounded with a sleep.

#356557 Poetry
By Anonymous
#356558 Poetry
E.L.W. PLATINUM, Glen Allen, Virginia
31 articles 0 photos 59 comments

Favorite Quote:
Here&#039;s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels.<br /> The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes - <br /> the ones who see things differently.<br /> They&#039;re not fond of rules and they have no respect for the status quo. <br /> They push the human race forward.

#356559 Poetry
By Bewick BRONZE
Handforth, Kentucky
Bewick BRONZE, Handforth, Kentucky
4 articles 0 photos 2 comments
#356560 Poetry
By breemartiniii SILVER
Clarksville, Tennessee
breemartiniii SILVER, Clarksville, Tennessee
5 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.&quot; -Robert Frost