#poetry

"Love one another, but make not a bond of love:Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls."

"The ambitions are wake up, breathe, keep breathing."

"Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang out their garments upon forked boughs to be banners of battle. O beloved daughter of Hope and Memory, be with me for a while."

"Truth {Couplet} Since every truth worth saying, has been already said,our job's to refine it, question it, or turn it on its head."

"If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine."

"If I lived a million lives, I would've felt a million feelings and I still would've fallen a million times for you."

"It was a dance of masks and every mask was perfect because every mask was a real face and every face was areal mask so there was no mask and there was no face for there was but one dance in which there was butone mask but one true face which was the same and which was a thing without a name which changed andchanged into itself over and over."

"She was stuck in between two worlds while her heart was pulling them both together. In a perfect world, she'd have both, or none at all. The symbol for love is two circles trying to merge in a Venn diagram that comes to a point down below, and only mostly separate are the two orbs one whole heart.-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz"

"Journalist asks me whether I can sit down for an interview... Sorry, I can't talk now. I'm busy writing up a storm.How about tomorrow?Sorry, tomorrow I'm bust conjuring up a tornado."

"Lost & Found of Love We cannot forfeit what was not truly ours to begin with.You can only lose yourself in the heartbreak of love lostand find yourself againinthe miracle of love regained."

"Let me just pause a minute and drink in this moment. And if you film it, I’ll be able to get free refills for life."

"That's not a run in your stocking, it's a hand on your leg."

"When you write about what you dream, you become a writer.When you dream about what you write, you become haunted by a curse."

"A tamed woman will never leave her mark in the world."

"Tangled [10w] Love becomes a tangle of roots submerged in common soil."

"How dull it is to pause, to make an end,To rust unburnish’d, not to shine in use!As tho’ to breathe were life!"

"United Negro College Fund: A mind is a terrible thing to waste... ...and so is your paycheck,so don't waste good money on a lost cause."

"Democracy, Really [10w] A democracy is free to replace one tyranny with another."

"Fodder for Poets [10w] Childhood memories are the most seminal sustenance for creating poetry."

"When you part from your friend, you grieve not;For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, asthe mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain."