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#1

“Once someone's hurt you, it's harder to relax around them, harder to think of them as safe to love. But it doesn't stop you from wanting them.”
― Holly Black, White Cat

tags: deep-thoughts

724 likes

#2

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

tags: love, poetry

39880 likes

#3

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

tags: philosophy, poetry

11438 likes

#4

“If you're reading this...
Congratulations, you're alive.
If that's not something to smile about,
then I don't know what is.”
― Chad Sugg, Monsters Under Your Head

tags: alive, congratulations, hope, humanity, inspiration, inspirational, inspire, life, poetry, smile, wisdom

8477 likes

#5

“To be nobody but
yourself in a world
which is doing its best day and night to make you like
everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”
― E.E. Cummings

tags: poetry

6628 likes

#6

“As it has been said:
Love and a cough
cannot be concealed.
Even a small cough.
Even a small love.”
― Anne Sexton

tags: poetry

3236 likes

#7

“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

tags: poetry

3879 likes

#8

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

tags: poetry

1471 likes

#9

“Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.”
― W.H. Auden, New Year Letter

tags: poetry

1796 likes

#10

“Peace is always beautiful.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

tags: peace, poetry

886 likes

#11

“A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.”
― W.H. Auden, The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume II: 1939-1948

tags: language, poetry, words

608 likes

#12

“To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: misquote, poetry

524 likes

#13

“Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.”
― William Blake

tags: poetry

327 likes

#14

“Every angel is terrifying.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies

tags: angels, elegy, poetry

347 likes

#15

“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”
― Charles Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82

tags: arts, life, music, poetry

2957 likes

#16

“Watch out for intellect,
because it knows so much it knows nothing
and leaves you hanging upside down,
mouthing knowledge as your heart
falls out of your mouth.”
― Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems

2640 likes

#17

“Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.”
― Jack Kerouac

1389 likes

#18

“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
― Bob Marley

tags: music

23147 likes

#19

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy

74365 likes

#20

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

tags: literature, music, poetry

13901 likes

#21

“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: loneliness, music, refuge

5474 likes

#22

“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
― Aldous Huxley, Music at Night and Other Essays

tags: music

4211 likes

#23

“There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.”
― Albert Schweitzer

tags: attributed-no-source, cats, life, music

3074 likes

#24

“Music is to the soul what words are to the mind.”
― Modest Mouse, Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News

1828 likes

#25

“To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.”
― Aaron Copland

tags: music

1290 likes

#26

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst

165284 likes

#27

“Some rather seek up high
Than dig and grind that inner truth”
― Saul Williams

tags: saul-williams

17 likes

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