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By Seelix PLATINUM
Chandler, Arizona

It's such a shame they let Someone like me Use these words To spin unoriginal fables. Don't they understand? I'm wasting these wonderful letters stringing th...
Seelix PLATINUM, Chandler, Arizona
20 articles 3 photos 72 comments

#35072 Poetry
By janice.babiie GOLD
Bronx, New York
janice.babiie GOLD, Bronx, New York
15 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
“To be nobody but yourself in a world that\\\'s doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting.” -e.e. cummings

#35073 Poetry
By MysticMonarch GOLD
Hamilton, Ohio
MysticMonarch GOLD, Hamilton, Ohio
14 articles 0 photos 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
"If you love something, set it free. If it stays in place because it has long wooden roots buried deep in the earth, it was probably a tree."- Night Vale podcast, via twitter.

#35074 Poetry
By lily9799 PLATINUM
Franklin, Wisconsin
lily9799 PLATINUM, Franklin, Wisconsin
49 articles 0 photos 3 comments

Favorite Quote:
"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." -Voltaire

iwritepoetrynottragedies GOLD, Wiscasset, Maine
11 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." —Edith Wharton

#35076 Poetry
By AnnemarieE GOLD
Wasaga Beach, Other
AnnemarieE GOLD, Wasaga Beach, Other
10 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
Depression is a killer, and hell, it sure kills.

#35077 Poetry
By xXPoptartKillerXx BRONZE
Heflin, Louisiana
xXPoptartKillerXx BRONZE, Heflin, Louisiana
2 articles 3 photos 3 comments

Favorite Quote:
I get the best feeling in the world when you say hi or even smile at me because I know, even if its just for a second, that I've crossed your mind.

#35078 Poetry
By WynterPage95 ELITE
Monticello, Arkansas
WynterPage95 ELITE, Monticello, Arkansas
164 articles 8 photos 76 comments

Favorite Quote:
"It's better to burn out than to fade away..." -Kurt Cobain

#35079 Poetry
By LestyPatrick PLATINUM
Darlington, South Carolina
LestyPatrick PLATINUM, Darlington, South Carolina
43 articles 5 photos 21 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, in as much as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and very fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterward carefully avoid"John Keats

#35080 Poetry
Traveler MAG
By DeanMoriarty SILVER
Newark, Delaware
DeanMoriarty SILVER, Newark, Delaware
9 articles 0 photos 9 comments

Favorite Quote:
&ldquo;Letting it get to you. You know what that&rsquo;s called? Being alive. Best thing there is. Being alive right now is all that counts.&rdquo; <br /> &mdash; The Doctor