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Sam Payne

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Born

in Cambridge, The United Kingdom

December 10, 1993

Genre

Poetry, Gay and Lesbian, Self Help

Influences

Trista Mateer, Ocean Vuong, Rudy Francisco, Blythe Baird, Olivia ...more

Member Since

July 2012

URL

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Sam Payne is a poet and artist based in Cambridge, UK. He has published two poetry books, this boy is a rainbow and this boy is a constellation, which explore love, loss, mental health, self-discovery, sexuality and growth. Sam's work has been featured in various anthologies and literary magazines, including mostly recently Instagram Poetry for Every Day (Lawrence King) and Poems for a Pandemic (HarperCollins).

His third book, Wildflower, a stunning collection of poems and art pieces about grief and healing, will be published in August 2022.

When he's not writing, Sam can be found tending to be houseplants, reading a good book, or treating himself to a slice of cake. Connect with him on Instagram, TikTok and Twitter @bysampayne and visit his ...more

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“my friend’s downcast eyes whisper how on earth did you survive?”
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“my rosy innocent definition of love became twisted untrusting fragile when you left”
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“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
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“He's a wallflower. You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
― Marilyn Monroe

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“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
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“There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There's .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course, there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and a million. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. A writer we used to like taught us that. There are days, many of them, when I resent the size of my unbounded set. I want more numbers than I'm likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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