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• See with your soul and not your eyes
  because to dance with the beasts you
  must penetrate their disguise.

  P.C. Cast

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• Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall.

  William Shakespeare

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• If you want me again look for me under your boot soles.

  Walt Whitman

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• You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart.

  W. H. Auden

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• Like a sculptor, if necessary,
  carve a friend out of stone.
  Realize that your inner sight is blind
  and try to see a treasure in everyone.

  Rumi

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• Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

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• I do not know which to prefer,
  The beauty of inflections
  Or the beauty of innuendos
  The blackbird whistling
  Or just after.

  Wallace Stevens

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• One need not be a chamber to be haunted.

  Emily Dickinson

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• i found god in myself
  and i loved her
  i loved her fiercely.

  Ntozake Shange

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• Since the thing perhaps is
  to eat flowers and not to be afraid.

  E. E. Cummings

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• Speak against unconscious oppression,
  Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative,
  Speak against bonds.

  Ezra Pound

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• I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another til I drop.

  Jack Kerouac

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• I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

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• For darkness restores what light cannot repair.

  Joseph Brodsky

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• If I can see pain in your eyes then share with me your tears. If I can see joy in your eyes then share with me your smile.

  Santosh Kalwar

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• Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not.

  John Keats

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• Every angel is terrifying.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

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• Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.

  Maya Angelou

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• Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.

  William Blake

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• Winter solitude-
  in a world of one colour
  the sound of the wind.

  Matsuo Basho

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