Vertigo-• Show poetry

Lacking in [emotion] I would say is the greatest flaw, because we live inside walls just tall enough to keep us within reach and I can teach you a thing or two about writing maps of what is meant and what is said...and the greatest regrets are misplaced but can be retraced like dance steps...I am a writer and I am a thinker and I live between worlds of unmet realities.

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Love me without fear trust me without restriction want me without demand and accept me for who I am -Unknown

"Life is just a chance to grow a soul" -A. Powell Davies


"We do not know our own souls, let alone the souls of others. Human beings do not go hand in hand the whole stretch of the way. There is a virgin forest in each; a snowfield where even the print of bird's feet is unknown. Here we go alone." -Virginia Woolf



"The poet doesn't invent. He listens." ~Jean Cocteau


"Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is." ~ James Branch Cabell

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot: Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each prayer accepted, and each wish resigned.-Alexander Pope

Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.- Henry Van Dyke

This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.- Horace

Whatever you are, be a good one.-Abraham Lincoln

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.- Samuel Butler

Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.- Scott Adams

Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.- Albert Szent-Gyorgi

The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered in the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found, it belongs to art, or, rather to the artist who discovers it.- Gustav Courbet

Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to it's original dimensions.- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I don't know and I don't care.- Richard Pratt

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience-well comes from poor judgment.-Cousin Woodman

Students are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. -J. Bronowski

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.-James Baldwin

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.-Colin Wilson

A distinction between achievement and success is that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying . Always aim for achievement and forget about success.- Helen Hayes

"To see a world in a grain of sand,
and heaven in a flower.
To hold infinity in the palm of our hand,
and eternity in an hour..."
-William Blake

"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."
-- Leonardo Da Vinci

"I started out with nothing. I still have most of it."
-- Michael Davis

"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."
-- Albert Einstein