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#1

“Aren't we all waiting to be read by someone, praying that they'll tell us that we make sense?”
― Rudy Francisco

tags: readers, reading, writers, writing

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#2

“My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.”
― Warsan Shire

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#3

“two people who were once very close can
without blame
or grand betrayal
become strangers.
perhaps this is the saddest thing in the world.”
― Warsan Shire

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#4

“With you, intimacy colours my voice.
even ‘hello’ sounds like ‘come here'.”
― Warsan Shire

tags: love

779 likes

#5

“I belong deeply to myself.”
― Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth

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#6

“abstraction, n.

Love is one kind of abstraction. And then there are those nights when I sleep alone, when I curl into a pillow that isn't you, when I hear the tiptoe sounds that aren't yours. It's not as if I can conjure you up completely. I must embrace the idea of you instead.”
― David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary

tags: abstraction, love, lover-s-dictionary

384 likes

#7

“You will hear thunder and remember me,
and think: she wanted storms...”
― Anna Akhmatova

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#8

“Your voice is wild and simple.
You are untranslatable
Into any one tongue.”
― Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

143 likes

#9

“You happened to me.
You were as deep down as I’ve ever been.
You were inside me like my pulse.”
― Marilyn Hacker

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#10

“I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love.”
― Frank O'Hara

tags: frank, love, men, o-hara, poem, poetry

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#11

“This is why it hurts the way it hurts.

You have too many words in your head. There are too many ways to describe the way you feel. You will never have the luxury of a dull ache.

You must suffer through the intricacy of feeling too much.”
― pleasefindthis, I Wrote This For You

tags: sadness-feeling-ache

475 likes

#12

“What are you supposed to do with all the love you have for somebody if that person is no longer there? What happens to all that leftover love? Do you suppress it? Do you ignore it? Are you supposed to give it to someone else?”
― Maggie O'Farrell, After You'd Gone

139 likes

#13

“I get crazy in a bookstore. It makes my heart beat hard because I want to buy everything.”
― Reese Witherspoon

tags: readers

190 likes

#14

“Poetry wasn't written to be analysed: it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

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#15

“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”
― Leonard Cohen

tags: ash, evidence, inspiration, life, poetry, writing

988 likes

#16

“Whatever I am, you did it.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

14 likes

#17

“If I have left a wound inside you, it is not just your wound but mine as well.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

318 likes

#18

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator

177187 likes

#19

“I wanted to tell her that being loved is a talent too, that it takes as much guts and as much work as loving; that some people, for whatever reason, never learn the knack ”
― Tana French, The Likeness

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#20

“It’s worth knowing who’s going to whisper your name when everyone else is screaming.”
― Gregory Sherl

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#21

“The Sun will rise and set regardless. What we choose to do with the light while it's here is up to us. Journey wisely.”
― Alexandra Elle

tags: alex-elle, journey, light, love, passion, sun, timing

214 likes

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