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    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
    tags: ecstasy, happiness, nature
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    Sylvia Plath
    “Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”
    ― sylvia plath
    tags: goals
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    Sylvia Plath
    “The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: depression-silence
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    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
    tags: love, poetry
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  • #5
    Robert Frost
    “We love the things we love for what they are.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: love, poetry
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  • #6
    E.E. Cummings
    “Unbeing dead isn't being alive.”
    ― E. E. Cummings
    tags: death, life, poetry
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  • #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
    tags: night, poetry
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  • #8
    Walt Whitman
    “Resist much, obey little.”
    ― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
    tags: poetry
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  • #9
    Let our scars fall in love.
    “Let our scars fall in love.”
    ― Galway Kinnell
    tags: poetry
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  • #10
    Charles Baudelaire
    “Always be a poet, even in prose.”
    ― Charles Baudelaire
    tags: poetry, prose, writing
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: poetry
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  • #12
    Kobayashi Issa
    “What a strange thing!
    to be alive
    beneath cherry blossoms.”
    ― Kobayashi Issa, Poems
    tags: blossoms, cherry-blossoms, haiku, japan, life, poetry, spring
    2367 likes

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  • #13
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    “I have drunken deep of joy,
    And I will taste no other wine tonight.”
    ― Percy Bysshe Shelley
    tags: inspirational-attitude, joy, poetry
    2112 likes

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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “I know you're tired but come, this is the way.”
    ― Jalalu'l-din Rumi
    tags: divinity, love, poetry, rumi, spiritual, sufi
    1593 likes

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  • #15
    Lawrence Ferlinghetti
    “Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.”
    ― Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Americus, Book I
    tags: poetry
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  • #16
    Wallace Stevens
    “Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.”
    ― Wallace Stevens
    tags: poetry, truth
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  • #17
    William Faulkner
    “Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.”
    ― William Faulkner, The Wild Palms
    tags: life-experience, poetry, sorrow
    1281 likes

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    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
    tags: art, artist, artistic, contemplating, dreams, experience, fantasy, fun, imagination, life, perception, perspective, poetry, reading, reality, solitude, songwriting, thinking, thoughts, universe, vicarious, writing
    1256 likes

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  • #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
    tags: bukowski, love, moments, nice, poetry, war-all-the-time, writing
    1167 likes

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  • #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
    tags: life, love, poetry
    920 likes

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  • #21
    Sylvia Plath
    “I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems
    tags: numbness, poetry
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  • #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
    tags: heart, heartbreak, poetry, wisdom
    698 likes



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