May 2013
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“That is what is wrong with cold people. Not that they have ice in their souls -...”
– Lorrie Moore, Self-Help
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“You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”
– Rumi
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“I now know that some people feel unhappiness the way others love: privately,...”
– Khaled Hosseini, And The Mountains Echoed
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“It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.”
– Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time
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“When they’re gone out of his head, these words, they’ll be gone,...”
– Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake
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“You have such a lovely temperature.”
– Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
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“I remember awakening one morning
and finding everything smeared with the color...”
– Charles Bukowski, “Memory” in What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
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“Love makes you see a place differently, just as you hold differently an object...”
– Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces
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“Find someone who will tremble for your touch, someone whose fingers are a poem.”
– Janet Fitch, White Oleander
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“We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more...”
– Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
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“Lists of books we re-read and books we can’t finish tell more about us...”
– Russell Banks
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“To pull the metal splinter from my palm
my father recited a story in a low...”
– Li-Young Lee, “The Gift”
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“Sometimes I’m afraid to go to sleep because of what I’m leaving behind.”
– Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
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“Because you can’t be this afraid of losing everything
if you don’t love...”
– Catalino Ferro, “Anxiety Group”
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“And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul,...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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“We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of...”
– T.S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party
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“This is a poem about rain,
not you,
so you will forgive me
if I only refer to...”
– C.S. Bhagya, “On Rain”
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“I placed a few nouns
in beautiful cages
then let them out.”
– Matthew Zapruder, “Poem for Japan”
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“But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The...”
– Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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“Some days I can go nearly an hour
without thinking of the taste
of your mouth.”
– Tim Seibles, “Slow Dance”
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“Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you, that you be my poem,
I whisper...”
– Walt Whitman, “To You”
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“Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other “sins” are invented...”
– Lazarus Long, Time Enough for Love
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“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of...”
– Helen Keller
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“So you attempt to hide your loneliness in public, to behave, in fact, as though...”
– David Marusek
Anonymous asked: So if one were to submit personal posts would they be sent to your ask or your submissions?
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“‘Am I weird?’
‘Yeah. But so what? Everybody’s...”
– Stephen King, Different Seasons
Anonymous asked: Can I anonymously send in a poem i wrote for feedback?
Anonymous asked: Do you accept personal submissions? Even if its just to read/comment upon, not necessarily to post
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“No one in my family, not one of my friends or classmates realized that I was...”
– Haruki Murakami, Sleep
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“The heart was made to be broken.”
– Oscar Wilde
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“Do your thing and don’t care if they like it.”
– Tina Fey, Bossypants
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“In order to write about life first you must live it.”
– Ernest Hemingway
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“My memory loves you; it asks about you all the time.”
– Jonathan Carroll
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Mantra to Overcome Depression
Vitamin D. Sunlight. Go outside. Get a good night
of sleep. Not too good.
Not shades drawn forever good. Not like you used to. Open the windows. Buy more houseplants. Breathe. Meditate. (One day, you will no longer be afraid of being alone with your thoughts.) Exercise. Actually exercise instead of just googling it. Eat well. Cook for yourself. Organize your closet, the garage. Drink plenty of...
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“You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner,...”
– Erin McKean, You Don’t Have to Be Pretty
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“I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald about Zelda Fitzgerald in a letter to a friend dated Febuary 1920
What is your go-to book (i.e. the book you always read to escape the daily wear and tear of life; essentially your ‘chicken soup for the soul’)?
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“Self-confidence and self-love come from within. You can’t love another person so...”
– Anonymous, Let’s Not Sexualize Insecurity
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“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
– Rumi
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“Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.”
– Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way
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“A person spends his life saying good-bye to other people. How does he say...”
– Don DeLillo, White Noise
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“I want you to bite my lip until I can no longer speak
And then suck my ex...”
– Rudy Francisco, “Love Poem Medley”
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“O So Lonely
While you sit alone.
No one is there
To make your house a home.”
– Cecelia Weir, “O So Lonely”
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“You won’t do our things with another girl, or say the same things, will you?”
– Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
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“I hated you when it would have taken less courage
to love.”
– Charles Bukowski, “As the Sparrow”
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“I am inside someone
who hates me.”
– Amiri Baraka, “An Agony. As Now.”
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“Sometimes I miss you
the way someone drowning
remembers the air.”
– Tim Seibles, “Slow Dance”
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“Women hold up half the sky”
– Chinese proverb 