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*Name* \Ana\
*Age* \24\
*Place* \San Antonio\



*QUOTES*

"If we really are saying that rap is an art form, then we got to be more responsible for our lyrics. If you see everybody dying because of what you are saying, it dont matter that you didnt make them die, it just matters that you didnt save them."
*-Tupac*


"He burned his house down for the fire insurance
And spent the proceeds on a telescope
To satisfy a life-long curiosity
About our place among the infinities."
*-Robert Frost*


"Yeah I missed you since the place got wrecked
By the winds of change and the weeds of sex
looks like freedom but it feels like death
it's something in between, I guess."
*-Leonard Cohen*


"But remorse I felt and remorse I had
It clung to every thing
From the raven's hair upon my head
To the feathers on my wings."
*-Nick Cave*


"Memories don't live like people do
They always remember you
Whether things are good or bad, its just the memories."
*-Mos Def*


"I searched till I found them, then I cursed at the sight
Of their sleeping shadows in the cold neon light
In the dark morning silence I placed the gun to her head
She wore red dresses, but now she lay dead."
*-Dwight Yoakam*


"Silence is golden
in a fashion
that is olden
but does not convey
a passion
in the way
This Passing
now imparts"
*-Guillotine*


"how was it that you saw my pain
when my eyes held nothing at all
could it be you're just like me"
*-Twilights Eyes*


"I looked to Heaven, and tried to pray;
But or ever a prayer had gusht,
A wicked whisper came, and made
My heart as dry as dust."
*-Samuel Taylor Coleridge*


"The dew of the morning
Sunk chill on my brow--
It felt like the warning
Of what I feel now."
*-Lord Byron*


"In time of silver rain
the butterflies
lift silken wings
to catch a rainbow cry"
*-Langston Hughes*


"So your gestures flake off ----
Warm and human, then their pink light
Bleeding and peeling
Through the black amnesias of heaven."
*-Sylvia Plath*


"It was, as I have said, a fine autumnal day; the sky was clear and serene, and nature wore that rich and golden livery which we always associate with the idea of abundance. The forests had put on their sober brown and yellow, while some trees of the tenderer kind had been nipped by the frosts into brilliant dyes of orange, purple, and scarlet,"
*-Washington Irving*


"Raise your cup and drink my friend
Drink for those who walk alone in the night
To the cripple and the blind
To the lost and the damned
To the lone bird flying in the sky"
*-Jack Micheline*


"this ain't no letter-press, hand-me-down,
wimpy beatnik festival of bitching about
the broken rainbow

it is a carnival of dread

it is a savage sideshow
*-David Lerner*


"i looked to the east
and the distant ringing
of ghost ponies
rose from the ground"
*-d. a. levy*


*None of the above poets post at this site as far as I know...*
*Below are quotes from poets on AP. These were used with permission. If you are here for the contest, you can use these as well, though I highly encourage you to read the poet.*


"apart from to drop your idols—gods
tinkling as they hit the floor and
shatter like clouds at the voice of Morning—"
*-Nicholas Yancey*


"Doral in fingers,
She exhales a visible breath
Saturated in the stench of a diseased liver."
*-SpydurPoet*


"I lit a candle to Saint Someone
and prayed that you would make your way
back home."
*-DownWithSolace*


"Great may be the stories of man,
and the chronicles of the Earth,
yet when the night and day are spent,
who should then remember,
as time and life depart?"
*-Stuart Higginson*


"If I should leave today, and never to return, will you remember me for who I am, and not for what you wanted me to be?"
*-Katina*



* *
When You Read This,
You Will Know it is for You.

Tonight your essence still lingers
where, years later, my tears still fall.
I am still the same person,
lost and frozen in that moment.
I have not moved since you left.
Give me back what you have stolen,
harborer of poetic hearts.
Tell me you love me no more, you never did.
Sell your soul for artistic torture.

Even now there are many,
your loves and whims.
Even now you wander this world of liquid sages.
Stillborn love chokes you.

* ^Ana^ *
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*\Favorite Singers/Bands\*
-Nick Cave/ Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
-Leonard Cohen
-Tupac
-Dwight Yoakam - hey don't knock it til you read his book.



*\Favorite Movies\*
-Hoodwinked
-Over the Hedge
-Crash
-Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
-Mirrormask
-The Labyrinth
-The Butterfly Effect



*\Favorite Books\*
-House of Leaves \Mark Danielewski\
-The Door to December \Dean Koontz\
More to come...



*\Favorite TEAMS\*
-COWBOYS
-SPURS
-RED SOX