Veeolin• Show poetry

Hi! I go by Veeolin, I'm 15, I'm female (at least the last time I checked...), and I live on Earth. Most of the time.

Other Random Crap About Me:

-I 've played viola for three years, her name's Bella
-I just started acoustic guitar, which is named Salvador
-I play some keyboard (no name there)
-I'm a high school freshmen
-And internet safety freak.
-I sometimes blow things out of proportion xD
-I'm Agnostic (But you know, the Flying Spaghetti Monster is pretty awesome)
-I consider myself pretty good at interpreting body language
-And guessing when someone doesn't give a damn what I'm saying
-Even through the internet
-I still can't pick up sarcasm on the internet
-I tend to procrasinate things a lot
-Astronomy=win
-I consider myself fairly open minded
-I tend to have a problem with giving straight "yes or no" answers
-I am not good at "expressing" myself to others
-Human voices sometimes annoy me
-I choose to ignore stereotypes all together, despite the consequences of that (*Pokes below list*)
-I fucking love music. There, I said it. The cliche statement of the generation.


Dislikes/Hatreds:

-Homophobia, Racism, Sexism, discrimination in general.
-Stereotypes and labels
-How you're just as likely to get discriminated for your music taste as for your race or religion at times...
-Religious fanatics trying to sell me on their beliefs
-The media's obsession with sex
-Actually, everyone's obsession with sex
-Dentists
-Monkey bars (long story...)
-People wanting to feel misunderstood
-Debates on who has it worse
-My own bad habits xD
-Teenies/fangirls



Er. I also feel the need to say that poetry has changed me? Poetry, music...all of it. I guess for the last year and a half or so I've been going through a sort of...let's call it a "revolution of the mind". I can't think of a better way to describe it. At 15, I suppose it's just one of those lovely coming of age experiences. xD I'm not a great poet, but I don't need to be. Although I think I've gotten a hell of a lot better since I started. I'm still learning, and I'll keep trying.



Music/Bands:
My Chemical Romance
Smashing Pumpkins
Armor for Sleep
30 Seconds to Mars
Marianas Trench
Sigur Rós
Amiina
Apocalyptica
Vitamin String Quartet
Billy Joel
Sick Puppies
Yo-Yo Ma & Alison Krauss
Antonio Vivaldi =D
Kaki King
I Am Ghost
Queen


Books:

Uglies (series) by Scott Westerfeld
Maximum Ride (trilogy) by James Patterson
His Dark Materials (trilogy) by Philip Pullman
Xenocide (Ender Saga) by Orson Scott Card
Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card
Twilight (series) by Stephenie Meyer
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Luna by Julie Anne Peters
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (series) by Douglas Adams
Helix by Eric Brown
1984 by George Orwell
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Anthem by Ayn Rand


And yes. Harry Potter. x)



Favorite quotes (There's a ton):

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation." -Oscar Wilde

"I am not young enough to know everything." -Oscar Wilde

"At the end of the game, both the king and pawn go back in the same box." -Unknown

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. " -George Orwell

"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows." -1984

"He wondered, as he had many times wondered before, whether he himself was a lunatic. Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one." -1984

"Sanity is not statistical." -1984

"Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood." -1984

"It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony." -Benjamin Britten

"And we don't know/Just where our bones will rest/To dust I guess/Forgotten and absorbed into the earth below." -1979, Smashing Pumpkins

"I use to be a little boy/So old in my shoes/What I choose is my voice/What's a boy suppose to do?/The killer in me is the killer in you." -Disarm, Smashing Pumpkins

"I never thought they'd get me here,/Not knowing you changed from just one bite,/I fought them all off just to hold you close and tight." -Early Sunsets Over Monroeville, My Chemical Romance

"If I'm so wrong/How can you listen all night long?/And will it matter, after I'm gone?/Because you never learned a goddamn thing." -Disenchanted, My Chemical Romance

"You know enough to know the way./Six billion people, just one name./I found tomorrow in today." -Edge of the Earth, 30 Seconds to Mars

"Live right now./And be yourself./Doesn't matter if it's good enough for someone else." -The Middle, Jimmy Eat World

"There is an art to flying, or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." -Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

"Musicians can only count to four. If you can count to five, you're not a musician." -My orchestra teacher

"All people want is someone to listen." -Hugh Elliott

"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly." -Henri Louis Bergeson

"There is more than one way to burn a book." -Ray Bradbury

"Let you alone! That's all very well, but how can I leave myself alone? We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?" -Fahrenheit 451

"You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was young I shoved my ignorance in people's faces. They beat me with sticks. By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn." -Fahrenheit 451

"Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore." -Fahrenheit 451

"Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there." -Fahrenheit 451

"Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as it is for the body. Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead." -Aldous Huxley

"After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." -Aldous Huxley

"A gramme is better than a damn. " -Brave New World

"True happiness must seem rather squalid compared to the overcompensations of misery." -Brave New World

"But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin." -Brave New World

"Sixty-two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots!" -Brave New World

"True love. Mental love. Like with two people that wouldn't mind not touching each other at all for the rest of eternity if it meant they'd stay together." -Prital




My own "quotes"/proverbs/opinions/etc.

~High school...is like an asylum for the hormonally deranged.

~Music has the potential to say so much. Yet so many artists aren't saying anything at all.

~If you're trying to go against the wind, you'll run and run and get nowhere. If the wind's at your back, you'll be able to move faster, but your hair will fly in your face so you won't be able to see where you're going, and in all likelihood will run into a pole. So instead of saying "May the wind be at your back," we should say "I hope it's not windy today." With, of course, the exception of people with short hair.

~The point is never to jump on the bandwagon, but rather to get a flameshooter and burn the bandwagon the fuck down.

-Music is the universal connector. Human emotion in stereo. There's nothing wrong with a lot of people liking the same music, the same band. That's what music is supposed to do. Connect people.

~A true friend is someone who's willing to listen. Listen to all the stupid shit you've ever done, and then tell you that you're forgiven.

~Someone once told me that human musicians were obsolete, since computers can do it better. But...music is something that is so purely human. If you take away the human element, what's left? Is it even still music?