FallingSideways• Show poetry

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"He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man"
-Dr. Johnson


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"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity; and it was not meant that we should voyage far."

-H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu


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Deep into the darkness peering,
long I stood there,
wondering,
fearing,
doubting,
dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared
to dream before.

-E. Poe


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"The Rabbit's hole is a deep dark place Alice"

I can be a tad facetious and a lil eccentric.

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.



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"All the people in history, literature, art, whom I most admire: Mozart,
Shakespeare, Homer, El Greco, St.John, Chekhov,Gregory of Nyssa,
Dostoevsky, Emily Bronte: not one of them would qualify for a mental-
health certificate."
- Madeline L'Engle, A Circle of Quiet, 1972


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"Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as
you are right now. Happily, some of them have kept records of their
troubles. You'll learn from them- if you want to. Just as someday, if
you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you.
It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's
history. It's poetry."

excerpt from 'The Catcher In The Rye'


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"Sir, I admit your general rule,
That every poet is a fool,
But you yourself may serve to show it,
That every fool is not a poet."

-Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Thank you to everyone who has read/commented on my writes,
Best Wishes Always
~Swt

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