I couldn't tell fact from fiction,
Or if the dream was true
My only sure prediction
In this world was you.
I'd touch your features inchly. Beard love and dared the cost, The sented spiel reeled me unreal And I found my senses lost.

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I've lost myself..."
"...since I found us."
"My God's upset,renounced my faith..."
"....
DR. KARAN M PAI

i can't tell if my mother is
terrified or in love with
my father it all
looks the sam...
RUPI KAUR In my loneliness…I found you
In my darkness... I found you
In my insanity…. I found yo...
AVIJEET DAS

I was only a child

when I learned how to fly

I wanted to touch the colors of...
TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO Bearings

You are my dear compass,
who knows no way but true,
so when I'm lost a...
LOUISE HAWES I love you.”

I stared stupidly at him. Was he joking again, reciting another line from ...
JENNIFER ECHOLS

Tess, Tess, Tessa.

Was there ever a more beautiful sound than your name? To speak it ...
CASSANDRA CLARE I call you my soulmate
because I lost myself in you
and then found myself through you. <...
KAMAND KOJOURI I was only kidding about the hundred," she says.

oh," I say, "what will it cost me?"
CHARLES BUKOWSKI What is this love
that makes me see beauty,
and makes every beautiful thing
bring yo...
KAMAND KOJOURI I am a creature of the Fey
Prepare to give your soul away
My spell is passion and it is ...
HEATHER ALEXANDER I do not love you except because I love you;
I go from loving to not loving you,
From wait...
PABLO NERUDA I dreamed I spoke in another's language,
I dreamed I lived in another's skin,
I dreamed I ...
CLIVE BARKER LET’S GO BACK HOME

I can't think about you,
Without smiling.
What I wouldn’...
GIORGE LEEDY Tell me what it is that you are hiding behind your eyes.
Tell me of the pain, so I can make it ...
JOSé N. HARRIS It’s not Love. But what fault is it of mine
if my affections do not become
Love? Very mu...
PIER PAOLO PASOLINI Autumn has come
and reason has gone.
Yesterday, I sold the sun for you
and tonight...
KAMAND KOJOURI BE REAL

Bring it on-
And let truth be my existence.
Value my life-
And tel...
GIORGE LEEDY My friend once told me
she liked this guy because of his hands
And I found it absurd that ...
CAROL SHLYAKHOVA Hearts In Me

If I look to the world with hearts in my eyes
Then surely I’ll be int...
JAY WOODMAN Looking for Your Face

From the beginning of my life
I have been looking for your fac...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI XVII

Lady, i will touch you with my mind.
Touch you and touch and touch
until y...
E.E. CUMMINGS If You Forget Me

I want you to know
one thing.

You know how this is:
PABLO NERUDA Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly;
In my own way, and with my full consent.
Say...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY A Gift for You
I send you...

The gift of a letter from your wise self. This is the p...
S.A.R.K. COMING FORTH INTO THE LIGHT

I was born the day
I thought:
What is?
What wa...
SUZY KASSEM 6 months, 2 weeks, 4 days,
and I still don’t know which month it was then
or what day it...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON You know I love you, right?” The urge to kiss her goodbye was so strong that I almost broke our ru...
RICHELLE MEAD Only do not forget, if I wake up crying
it's only because in my dream I'm a lost child
PABLO NERUDA Riches I hold in light esteem,
And love I laugh to scorn,
And lust of fame was but a dream...
EMILY BRONTë Tell me where the swans go in the winter
I need to know if the mute ones can sing.

T...
KAMAND KOJOURI You blast me open and then
You stand back and watch
My feeble attempts
To deal wit...
KATE MCGAHAN Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow-
Yo...
EDGAR ALLAN POE From this day forward, I vowed
to myself, I was in control of my life. Not fate, not
God, ...
V.C. ANDREWS I was mistaken
when I said you
live in my heart.
How absurd I was
when you l...
KAMAND KOJOURI I said, I want to tell you something.
She said, you can tell me tomorrow.
I had never told...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER I'm lonely,
Yes! I'm so lonely.
I'm Just a sad tear that came out of the depths of pain....
EYDEN I. You shall be my roots and
I will be your shade,
though the sun burns my leaves.

MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI Me plus you. (Imma tell you one time) Me plus you. (Imma tell you one time)
Me plus you. (Imma ...
JUSTIN BIEBER I will remember the kisses
our lips raw with love
and how you gave me
everything y...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI A dream so vibrant,
A dream so blissful;
I hold it close to my heart.
In anxious nigh...
SOMYA KEDIA I want you to tell me about every person you’ve ever been in love with.
Tell me why you loved...
ANDREA GIBSON Sonnet XVII

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of ca...
PABLO NERUDA Sonnet LXXXI

And now you're mine. Rest with your dream in my dream.
Love and pain ...
PABLO NERUDA When you go,
if you go,
And I should want to die,
there's nothing I'd be saved by
EDWIN MORGAN i am in need of a sudden Shift,
Your crimson lips. screaming at my Lips.
Let me hold down ...
SYED MURTAZA HAROON They stay in my mind, these beautiful people,
or anyway beautiful people to me, of which
t...
MARY OLIVER A Dream Within A Dream

Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you...
EDGAR ALLAN POE I don’t love you as if you were a rose of salt, topaz,
or arrow of carnations that propagate...
PABLO NERUDA Pretty Song"

From the complications of loving you
I think there is no end or return....
MARY OLIVER Take bread away from me, if you wish,
take air away, but
do not take from me your laughter...
PABLO NERUDA My dear,
In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love.
In the mi...
ALBERT CAMUS I am certain,
my love,
that poetry was born
only after your birth.
KAMAND KOJOURI My letters! all dead paper, mute and white!
And yet they seem alive and quivering
Against ...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious v...
EDGAR ALLAN POE Even when I was a very young man,
I was looking for the purpose of life;
I was looking fo...
DEBASISH MRIDHA Mad Girl's Love Song

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and...
SYLVIA PLATH MOTHER IS WATER

I wish I could
Shower your head with flowers
And anoint your fe...
SUZY KASSEM I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Haunted

You haunt me in my dreams
I can only hear my drowning screams
Is it bec...
STACE LEE If I never meet you
In this life
Let me feel the lack
A glance from your eyes
T...
JAMES JONES It was a question I had worn on my lips for days - like a loose thread on my favourite sweater I cou...
LANG LEAV I have become intoxicated again.
You are such a potent wine, my friend.
To escape your wit...
KAMAND KOJOURI Body of a woman, white hills, white thighs,
you look like a world, lying in surrender.
My ...
PABLO NERUDA Dreams are memories.
Memories are dreams.
But my time with you hasn’t become a dream j...
F.K. PRESTON Does God know
the number of kisses
before we fall in love?
Yesterday, I was nobody KAMAND KOJOURI Sonnet XXV

Before I loved you, love, nothing was my own:
I wavered through the stre...
PABLO NERUDA Once when I was young and true,
Someone left me sad-
Broke my brittle heart in two;
And ...
DOROTHY PARKER My tears of joy
hear the raindrops crying,
as the rain never wants to pour
down on my...
MUNIA KHAN I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)I am never without it (anywhere
I go you go,...
E.E. CUMMINGS Noah, wherever you are and whenever you read this, I love you. I
love you deeply, my husband. ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS If I were a cinnamon peeler
I would ride your bed
and leave the yellow bark dust
on y...
MICHAEL ONDAATJE We shall not sip from the same glass,
No water for us, or sweet wine;
We’ll not embrace ...
ANNA AHKMATOVA I ask the impossible: love me forever.
Love me when all desire is gone.
Love me with the s...
ANA CASTILLO If you are near ,my heart beats fast,
If you are far, my hearts becomes restless,

Wh...
LUNA MARYM Once, when I was young and true.
Someone left me sad -
Broke my brittle heart in two;
DOROTHY PARKER and you invented me
and I invented you
and that's why we don't
get along
on this...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I believe in you my soul, the other I am must not abase itself to you,
And you must not be abas...
WALT WHITMAN What irritated me most in that entire situation was the fact that I
wasn’t feeling humiliated...
DANKA V. You can capture this body of mine, take away my freedom and enslave me.
You may even have the ...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH Love.

Because of you, in gardens of blossoming
Flowers I ache from the perfumes of s...
PABLO NERUDA Why is my love for you, dyed in wool?
What is the hindrance to moving on?

Why in lov...
ZUBAIR AHSAN No Goodbye'

The floods of tears,
Flow for thee,
As I remember how it used to be...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Oh oak tree, how they have pruned you.
Now you stand odd and strangely shaped!
You were h...
HERMANN HESSE JAMIE'S SONG 'KILL ME':

In the darkness of the night,
you come to me to fight.
...
NEHA YAZMIN Macon Ethan
I lay my head down on his chest and cried because had lived
because he had die...
KAMI GARCIA THE INVITATION
by Oriah Mountain Dreamer

It doesn't interest me what you do for a li...
ORIAH MOUNTAIN DREAMER Usually, when I dream of flying
I am simply flapping my arms
and somehow I lift off and ...
KAMAND KOJOURI We slept in the same bed.
There was never a right time to say it.
It was always unnecessar...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Why shall I speak of the damage of love?
When it rejuvenates me just as much

In love...
ZUBAIR AHSAN Why shall I speak of the damage of love?
When it rejuvenates me just as much

In love...
ZUBAIR AHSAN It is the mission of each true knight...
His duty... nay, his privilege!
To dream the im...
JOE DARION It was your birthday, we had drunk and dined
Half of the night with our old friend
Who�...
THOM GUNN XVI
I love the handful of the earth you are.
Because of its meadows, vast as a planet,
PABLO NERUDA The hour of spring was dark at last,
sensuous memories of sunlight past,
I stood alone in ...
ROMAN PAYNE I Remember Years Ago, Someone Told Me I Should Take Caution When it Comes to Love, I Did
So Tel...
SHONTELLE I don't need him to comfort me or tell me it's okay.
I can make it okay, myself.
Maybe th...
L.J. SMITH When I got out of the movie, I had four text messages from Augustus.

Tell me my copy is m...
JOHN GREEN The door is cracked

We used to meet
like water does land
no
not that
...
DAVE MATTHES I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.

Write, for instance: "The night is full of ...
PABLO NERUDA

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MAYA ANGELOU As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men de...
MAYA ANGELOU If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person...
MAYA ANGELOU The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amaze...
MAYA ANGELOU To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball the...
MAYA ANGELOU The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned...
MAYA ANGELOU We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men... We are who we are...
MAYA ANGELOU I thank God I'm myself and for the life I'm given to live and for friends and lovers and bel...
MAYA ANGELOU If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
MAYA ANGELOU It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Be...
MAYA ANGELOU The language of all the interpretations, the translations, of the Judaic Bible and the Christian Bib...
MAYA ANGELOU I read the Bible to myself; I'll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to h...
MAYA ANGELOU I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So ...
MAYA ANGELOU Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
MAYA ANGELOU All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more ...
MAYA ANGELOU We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are m...
MAYA ANGELOU I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intell...
MAYA ANGELOU You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, ...
MAYA ANGELOU I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scrip...
MAYA ANGELOU When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
MAYA ANGELOU I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I&#...
MAYA ANGELOU You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot -...
MAYA ANGELOU I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself ...
MAYA ANGELOU If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
MAYA ANGELOU It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is...
MAYA ANGELOU If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
MAYA ANGELOU All great achievements require time.
MAYA ANGELOU Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
MAYA ANGELOU You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I ...
MAYA ANGELOU I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.
MAYA ANGELOU Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. T...
MAYA ANGELOU There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more ...
MAYA ANGELOU I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.
MAYA ANGELOU I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people ...
MAYA ANGELOU It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
MAYA ANGELOU We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can...
MAYA ANGELOU I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.
MAYA ANGELOU I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life lo...
MAYA ANGELOU I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.
MAYA ANGELOU I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
MAYA ANGELOU The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else'...
MAYA ANGELOU Information helps you to see that you're not alone. That there's somebody in Mississippi and...
MAYA ANGELOU Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessi...
MAYA ANGELOU One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can...
MAYA ANGELOU If we don't plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And y...
MAYA ANGELOU History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived...
MAYA ANGELOU I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaki...
MAYA ANGELOU What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been pai...
MAYA ANGELOU Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.
MAYA ANGELOU

I couldn't tell fact from fiction,
Or if the dream was true
My only sure prediction
In this world was you.
I'd touch your features inchly. Beard love and dared the cost, The sented spiel reeled me unreal And I found my senses lost.

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I couldn't tell fact from fiction,
Or if the dream was true
My only sure prediction
In this world was you.
I'd touch your features inchly. Beard love and dared the cost, The sented spiel reeled me unreal And I found my senses lost.

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I couldn't tell fact from fiction, Or if the dream was true My only sure prediction In this world was you. I'd touch your features inchly. Beard love and dared the cost, The sented spiel reeled me unreal And I found my senses lost.

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I couldn't tell fact from fiction,
Or if the dream was true
My only sure prediction
In this world was you.
I'd touch your features inchly. Beard love and dared the cost, The sented spiel reeled me unreal And I found my senses lost.