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  • #1
    pleasefindthis
    “I'd rather live with the answer than die with the question.”
    pleasefindthis, I Wrote This For You

  • #2
    “What would answers offer and--more importantly--what might they take away?”
    Laura Kelly, Dispatches from the Republic of Otherness

  • #3
    Sonya Hartnett
    “We both knew that what I said was the truth, as well as being a lie. The pure and honest answer was pinging between us, hovering above the weeds.”
    Sonya Hartnett, Surrender

  • #4
    Oscar Wilde
    “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

  • #5
    Jess C. Scott
    “When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”
    Jess C. Scott, The Intern

  • #6
    J.K. Rowling
    “The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #7
    Sarah Dessen
    “So you're always honest," I said.
    "Aren't you?"
    "No," I told him. "I'm not."
    "Well, that's good to know, I guess."
    "I'm not saying I'm a liar," I told him. He raised his eyebrows. "That's not how I meant it, anyways."
    "How'd you mean it, then?"
    "I just...I don't always say what I feel."
    "Why not?"
    "Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said.
    "Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though.”
    Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

  • #8
    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

  • #9
    Robert Frost
    “We love the things we love for what they are.”
    Robert Frost

  • #10
    Victor Hugo
    “Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
    Victor Hugo

  • #11
    Kahlil Gibran
    “You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
    Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

  • #12
    Walt Whitman
    “Resist much, obey little.”
    Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

  • #13
    Walt Whitman
    “And as to me, I know nothing else but miracles”
    Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

  • #14
    Walt Whitman
    “Are you the new person drawn toward me?
    To begin with, take warning - I am surely far different from what you suppose;
    Do you suppose you will find in me your ideal?
    Do you think it so easy to have me become your lover?
    Do you think the friendship of me would be unalloy'd satisfaction?
    Do you think I am trusty and faithful?
    Do you see no further than this façade—this smooth and tolerant manner of me?
    Do you suppose yourself advancing on real ground toward a real heroic man?
    Have you no thought, O dreamer, that it may be all maya, illusion?”
    Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

  • #15
    Walt Whitman
    “Your very flesh shall be a great poem...”
    Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

  • #16
    Walt Whitman
    “Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass,
    Be not afraid of my body.”
    Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

  • #17
    Walt Whitman
    “What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.”
    Walt Whitman

  • #18
    Walt Whitman
    “I like the scientific spirit—the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine—it always keeps the way beyond open—always gives life, thought, affection, the whole man, a chance to try over again after a mistake—after a wrong guess.”
    Walt Whitman, Walt Whitman's Camden Conversations

  • #19
    Walt Whitman
    “God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards.”
    Walt Whitman

  • #20
    Walt Whitman
    “Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you/ That you may be my poem/ I whisper with my lips close to your ear/ I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you.”
    Walt Whitman

  • #21
    Walt Whitman
    “These are the days that must happen to you.”
    Walt Whitman

  • #22
    Walt Whitman
    “The real war will never get in the books.”
    Walt Whitman

  • #23
    Walt Whitman
    “I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.”
    Walt Whitman, Song of Myself

  • #24
    Walt Whitman
    “I cannot be awake, for nothing looks to me as it did before, or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.”
    Walt Whitman

  • #25
    Walt Whitman
    “it makes such difference where you read”
    Walt Whitman

  • #26
    Lorine Niedecker
    “What would they say if they knew
    I sit for two months
    on six lines of poetry?”
    Lorine Niedecker

  • #27
    Robert Frost
    “These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
    But I have promises to keep,
    And miles to go before I sleep,
    And miles to go before I sleep.”
    Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

  • #28
    Robert Frost
    “Some say the world will end in fire,
    Some say in ice.
    From what I've tasted of desire,
    I hold with those who favor fire.
    But if it had to perish twice
    I think I know enough of hate
    To say that for destruction ice
    Is also great
    And would suffice.”
    Robert Frost

  • #29
    Robert Frost
    “Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”
    Robert Frost

  • #30
    Robert Frost
    “The best way out is always through.”
    Robert Frost



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