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  • #1
    Sylvia Plath
    “I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

  • #2
    Sylvia Plath
    “Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”
    sylvia plath

  • #3
    Sylvia Plath
    “The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

  • #4
    Pablo Neruda
    “I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
    in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
    Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

  • #5
    Robert Frost
    “We love the things we love for what they are.”
    Robert Frost

  • #6
    E.E. Cummings
    “Unbeing dead isn't being alive.”
    E. E. Cummings

  • #7
    I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
    “I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
    Sarah Williams

  • #8
    Walt Whitman
    “Resist much, obey little.”
    Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

  • #9
    Let our scars fall in love.
    “Let our scars fall in love.”
    Galway Kinnell

  • #10
    Charles Baudelaire
    “Always be a poet, even in prose.”
    Charles Baudelaire

  • #11
    Charles Bukowski
    “Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #12
    Kobayashi Issa
    “What a strange thing!
    to be alive
    beneath cherry blossoms.”
    Kobayashi Issa, Poems

  • #13
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    “I have drunken deep of joy,
    And I will taste no other wine tonight.”
    Percy Bysshe Shelley

  • #14
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “I know you're tired but come, this is the way.”
    Jalalu'l-din Rumi

  • #15
    Lawrence Ferlinghetti
    “Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.”
    Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Americus, Book I

  • #16
    Wallace Stevens
    “Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.”
    Wallace Stevens

  • #17
    William Faulkner
    “Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.”
    William Faulkner, The Wild Palms

  • #18
    Criss Jami
    “Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.”
    Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

  • #19
    Charles Bukowski
    “some moments are nice, some are
    nicer, some are even worth
    writing
    about.”
    Charles Bukowski, War All the Time: Poems 1981 - 1984

  • #20
    Ocean Vuong
    “What were you before you met me?"
    "I think I was drowning"
    "And what are you now?"
    "Water”
    Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

  • #21
    Sylvia Plath
    “I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems

  • #22
    Sara Teasdale
    “It is strange how often a heart must be broken
    Before the years can make it wise.”
    Sara Teasdale, The Collected Poems



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