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By TimeCouldStopMe BRONZE
Salmon, Idaho

I don't mean to make you feel like you're just filling my emptiness. Like you're only here for my benefit. Vast... Is the emptiness really that big? If you op...
TimeCouldStopMe BRONZE, Salmon, Idaho
4 articles 1 photo 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
&quot;All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost.&quot;<br /> <br /> &quot;I know that life is busy and hard, and that there&rsquo;s a crushing pressure to just settle down and get a real job and khaki pants and a haircut. But don&rsquo;t. Please don&rsquo;t. Please keep believing that life can be better, brighter, broader, because of the art that you make. Please keep demonstrating the courage that it takes to swim upstream in a world that prefers putting away for retirement to putting pen to paper, that chooses practicality over poetry, that values you more for going to the gym than going to the deepest places in your soul. Please keep making art for people like me, people who need the magic and imagination and honesty of great art to make the day-to-day world a little more bearable. And if, for whatever reason, you&rsquo;ve stopped&ndash; stopped believing in your voice, stopped fighting to find the time&ndash;start today. - Shauna Niequist, Cold Tangerines<br /> <br /> &quot;And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.&quot;<br /> -Nietzsche<br /> <br /> &quot;You were born crying, so die smiling.&quot;


#257762 Poetry
By MikaylaT BRONZE
Exeter, New Hampshire
MikaylaT BRONZE, Exeter, New Hampshire
3 articles 0 photos 5 comments

Favorite Quote:
In that moment, I swear we were infinite.

#257763 Poetry
By benndelisle GOLD
Morrisonville, New York
benndelisle GOLD, Morrisonville, New York
11 articles 0 photos 0 comments
#257764 Poetry
By cinderella PLATINUM
BEVERLY HIILLS, California
cinderella PLATINUM, BEVERLY HIILLS, California
38 articles 1 photo 18 comments

Favorite Quote:
life is a book, you can write or read, but what ever you do keep flipping the pages

#257765 Poetry
By AmieNight BRONZE
Brightlingsea, Other
AmieNight BRONZE, Brightlingsea, Other
3 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
Gotta fall before you fly

#257766 Poetry
By OurVoices PLATINUM
Merrimac, Massachusetts
OurVoices PLATINUM, Merrimac, Massachusetts
31 articles 0 photos 34 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are&quot; - e.e. cummings

#257767 Poetry
By Espii BRONZE
WDM, Iowa
Espii BRONZE, WDM, Iowa
1 article 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
Stay rad.

#257768 Poetry
By Zoe Hoffman BRONZE
Bridgeton, New Jersey
Zoe Hoffman BRONZE, Bridgeton, New Jersey
1 article 0 photos 0 comments
#257769 Poetry
By owkey BRONZE
Markham, Other
owkey BRONZE, Markham, Other
4 articles 0 photos 14 comments

Favorite Quote:
Hey <br /> <br /> -Owkey

#257770 Poetry
KiraVogt2896 SILVER, La Canada Flintridge, California
9 articles 0 photos 21 comments

Favorite Quote:
&#039;Our love is like the wind... I can&rsquo;t see it, but I sure can feel it.&#039; By Landon, A Walk To Remember. Movie and book.