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ANTHONY RYAN
Now Ireland has her madness and her weather still, For poetry makes nothing happen
W. H. AUDEN
I worry there is something broken in our generation,
there are too many sad eyes on happy faces...
ATTICUS POETRY
She was afraid of heights
but she was
much more afraid
of never flying.
ATTICUS POETRY
A sky
full
of stars
and he
was staring
at her.

—ATTICUS
ATTICUS POETRY
What good are wings without the courage to fly?
ATTICUS POETRY
Love her but leave her wild 
ATTICUS POETRY
There is nothing
prettier in the
whole wide world
than a girl
in love
wit...
ATTICUS POETRY
Watch carefully
the magic that occurs
when you give a person
enough comfort
t...
ATTICUS POETRY
I think it’s beautiful
the way you sparkle
when you talk about
the things you lov...
ATTICUS POETRY
I hope to arrive at my death, late, in love, and a little drunk. 
ATTICUS POETRY
We are made of all those who have built and broken us.
ATTICUS POETRY
Depression is being colorblind and constantly told how colorful the world is.
ATTICUS POETRY
I will follow you,
my love,
to the edge of all our days,
to our very last
tom...
ATTICUS POETRY
As he took her hand
he gave her
all she had been
waiting for--
a shiver
dow...
ATTICUS POETRY
You deserve to be the person you were meant to be. 
ATTICUS POETRY
It's a
lonely
thing,
protecting
a breakable
heart
ATTICUS POETRY
Art takes time—
Monet grew his gardens
before he painted them.
ATTICUS POETRY
There’s too much risk in loving,’
the young boy said,
‘no,’
said the old man,...
ATTICUS POETRY
Our
songs
live
longer
than
our
kingdoms.
ATTICUS POETRY
We humans
are so tortured
by not properly guessing
what will make us happy.
ATTICUS POETRY
Time is all we have and don’t. 
ATTICUS POETRY
That was her magic—
she could still see
the sunset
even on those
darkest da...
ATTICUS POETRY
She wore the moonlight like lingerie. 
ATTICUS POETRY
From
the moment
I saw her
I knew
this one
was worth
the
broke...
ATTICUS POETRY
It was her chaos that made her beautiful. 
ATTICUS POETRY
I aspire to be
an old man
with an old wife
laughing at old jokes
from a wild...
ATTICUS POETRY
I WANT TO BE WITH SOMEONE WHO DREAMS OF DOING EVERYTHING IN LIFE
AND NOTHING ON RAINY SUNDAY AF...
ATTICUS POETRY
Brushing a girl’s hair
behind her ear
once a day
will solve more problems
tha...
ATTICUS POETRY
She was everything real in a world of make-believe. 
ATTICUS POETRY
She conquered her demons and wore her scars like wings. 
ATTICUS POETRY
Tutti indossiamo una maschera,
per alcuni è il trucco,
per altri il sorriso,
le mogl...
ATTICUS POETRY
Chase your stars fool, life is short. 
ATTICUS POETRY
Don't confuse poetry with madness.
CHRISTOPHER WILLIAM SPADI
No matter what, the day didn't feel like Christmas to her.

She remembered years ago, when...
KAYLA KRANTZ
Reese Witherspoon. She's sophisticated enough that you just like her. You like her and she's...
DON BLUTH
She had only to open a door, nothing but a door between the words,just large enough for her and Fari...
CORNELIA FUNKE
My mother begged doctors to end her life. She was beyond the physical ability to swallow enough of t...
POLLY TOYNBEE
Enough madness? Enough? And how do you measure madness? - The Joker
GRANT MORRISON
It did no good to cry, she had learned that early on. She had also learned that every time she tried...
STIEG LARSSON
Poetry led me by the hand out of madness.
ANNE SEXTON
She suddenly understood why she had let him kiss her in the diner, why she had wanted him at all. HOLLY BLACK I sat her one time, just to make an example out of her. It was on a Saturday and she came to practic...
GARY CRANE
Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.
JOHN RUSSELL
We had enough defensemen but not enough forwards and she seemed to be somebody who could make the mo...
KRISTIN STEELE
You've got to force her to stop playing just to get a rest. She just doesn't get enough of it.
JEFF BARKER
Portia remembered her interview in the small office upstairs...in which she had been so shy, so terr...
JEAN HANFF KORELITZ
Just about everybody in Brookneal knew her. She just had a way about her.
PAT BURSTEIN
She is just that unsung kind of hero. She doesn't really like the commotion around her; she just lik...
TARA SAVOLT
David had said something about her 'distinctive features'. Was he going to make her look ethnic? Jad...
FRANCINE PASCAL
Apparently, dancing for him and throwing herself at him weren't enough. Apparently, she had to nearl...
GENA SHOWALTER
We had Cathy over from Oahu to read in 2004, and not only was the event well attended but her readin...
JULIE MITCHELL
Myra wasn't simple or complicated. She was different. She was not perfect, not even close but her fl...
PARUL WADHWA
She has enough black eyeliner on to outline a corpse, and her skin's so pale she looks like she's ju...
JOHN GREEN
A madness of tender caressing seized her. She purred as a tiger might have done, while she undulated...
ELINOR GLYN
Josie just had a different spirit than her atmosphere. She wanted to break out of the walls that wer...
JENNIFER ZIMMERMAN
I used to write poetry when I was younger," Jess said. She had kept a notebook by her bed, in case s...
ALLEGRA GOODMAN
Her poetry, which she uses to examine her deepest feelings, is beautifully crafted, She's developed ...
KATE KELLY
She culminated her career at the end. She just did what she had always done.
DAN MESSMANN
She didn't leave me enough to discover her, but she left me enough to rediscover the Great Perhaps.
JOHN GREEN
She lends her pen,
to thoughts of him,
that flow from it,
in her solitary.

LANG LEAV
Nurtured by negative circumstances, braiding raging tornadoes in her hair, she held her head high, w...
CURTIS TYRONE JONES
Before her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp; but since the happiness whic...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
I wasn't watching her, I thought 'wow' when she told me she hit all 10, but I didn't care. I knew I ...
ALLIE WHITEHOUSE
When Atticus came home to dinner he found me crouched down aiming across the street. "What are you s...
HARPER LEE
The point is, Ilsa Hermann had decided to make suffering her triumph. When it refused to let go of h...
MARKUS ZUSAK
Kessa ran her fingers over her stomach. Flat. But was it flat enough? Not quite. She still had some ...
STEVEN LEVENKRON
First she starved herself of love, which meant also life; then of poetry in deference to what she th...
VIRGINIA WOOLF
If she set her mind to it she'd do it. She just had that kind of spirit.
CONNIE KYRIACOU
We were prepared to buy her clothes and make sure she had all her supplies for school, but her guard...
JOYCE JOHNSON
I try to make my comments like a woman's skirt: long enough to be respectable and short enough to be...
ADAM CLAYTON POWELL III
Nobody believes me ... She goes through a very interesting journey in the film. One of the most chal...
JODIE FOSTER
Hayley had two strikes on her, and I told her she needed to just center up. And she ended up with a ...
LORI ALEXANDER
Her own awareness had risen like the dawn on her back.Like a leaden sunrise veiled in a swirl of sto...
RENEE AHDIEH
She plays with her emotions on her sleeve, she's going to yell every once in a while. But her being ...
MARQUETTE BURGESS
She had to make me feel comfortable with her decision making. I had to tone her down. As the season'...
ANN HANCOCK
Her beauty was enough to get her into most any situation she desired and her tongue—sharp and veno...
THOMM QUACKENBUSH
We had her for seven years until she got sick and we had to put her down, that was just in December.
JAMIE WOODRUFF
Fair enough,” said Thor. “What’s the price?” “Freya’s hand in marriage.” “He just wa...
NEIL GAIMAN
Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person; if her fa...
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE
Find a woman who makes you feel more alive. She won't make life perfect but she'll make it infinitel...
GAYLE ROPER
She had an interesting and important political role,
BERNARD LANDRY
Whatever her name was, she was pretty. She had a thick, careless braid of chestnut hair, a quick smi...
LYNNE RAE PERKINS
By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face...
DAVID WHYTE
She burns like the sun
Beautiful when she comes undone
No restraints
Pure passion flo...
MELODY LEE
She was awesome. She had location on all of her pitches and was just outstanding.
BRIAN GLASS
Watching the couple, she silently wishes she had just cleaned out her damn coffee pot.
SOLANGE NICOLE
Imogen looked at Ty, at the one man who could halt her stone-cold logic and make her just feel.... S...
ERIN MCCARTHY
We had somebody on Morton from one end of the floor to the other. I just told them, 'Don't let her w...
GAIL GLADDING
Will, the boy who loved the same books she did, the same poetry she did, who made her laugh even whe...
CASSANDRA CLARE
I just can't say enough about Shannon. She deserved a first-team selection. I think she had an outst...
CLINT WALLMAN
She was a very unhappy person most of her life. She went to hospitals all the time. All kinds of hos...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
She had her whole future in front of her, and this guy just ripped us apart from her.
SHANKAR DYAL
Freud thought that a psychosis was a waking dream, and that poets were daydreamers too, but I wonder...
WILLIAM H. GASS
The gloomy comparisons of a disturbed imagination, the melancholy madness of poetry without the ins...
JUNIUS
Margarita was never short of money. She could buy whatever she liked. Her husband had plenty of inte...
MIKHAIL BULGAKOV
They were found at a car wash after she had just had her babies. She was covered up with trash.
CONNIE GUTHRIE
Florence could feel a constriction in her chest…She had been foolish enough to hope that whatever ...
SANA KRASIKOV
Florence could feel a constriction in her chest…She had been foolish enough to hope that whatever ...
SANA KRASIKOV
Charity's excited to meet a real, live, fire-breathing dragon. But she discovers she's not evil ? sh...
ALICE BESTERMAN

More Atticus Poetry

I worry there is something broken in our generation,
there are too many sad eyes on happy faces...
ATTICUS POETRY
She was afraid of heights
but she was
much more afraid
of never flying.
ATTICUS POETRY
A sky
full
of stars
and he
was staring
at her.

—ATTICUS
ATTICUS POETRY
What good are wings without the courage to fly?
ATTICUS POETRY
Love her but leave her wild 
ATTICUS POETRY
There is nothing
prettier in the
whole wide world
than a girl
in love
wit...
ATTICUS POETRY
She conquered her demons and wore her scars like wings. 
ATTICUS POETRY
Watch carefully
the magic that occurs
when you give a person
enough comfort
t...
ATTICUS POETRY
I think it’s beautiful
the way you sparkle
when you talk about
the things you lov...
ATTICUS POETRY
I hope to arrive at my death, late, in love, and a little drunk. 
ATTICUS POETRY
We are made of all those who have built and broken us.
ATTICUS POETRY
Depression is being colorblind and constantly told how colorful the world is.
ATTICUS POETRY
Tutti indossiamo una maschera,
per alcuni è il trucco,
per altri il sorriso,
le mogl...
ATTICUS POETRY
I will follow you,
my love,
to the edge of all our days,
to our very last
tom...
ATTICUS POETRY
As he took her hand
he gave her
all she had been
waiting for--
a shiver
dow...
ATTICUS POETRY
You deserve to be the person you were meant to be. 
ATTICUS POETRY
It's a
lonely
thing,
protecting
a breakable
heart
ATTICUS POETRY
Art takes time—
Monet grew his gardens
before he painted them.
ATTICUS POETRY
There’s too much risk in loving,’
the young boy said,
‘no,’
said the old man,...
ATTICUS POETRY
Our
songs
live
longer
than
our
kingdoms.
ATTICUS POETRY
We humans
are so tortured
by not properly guessing
what will make us happy.
ATTICUS POETRY
Time is all we have and don’t. 
ATTICUS POETRY
That was her magic—
she could still see
the sunset
even on those
darkest da...
ATTICUS POETRY
She was everything real in a world of make-believe. 
ATTICUS POETRY
She wore the moonlight like lingerie. 
ATTICUS POETRY
From
the moment
I saw her
I knew
this one
was worth
the
broke...
ATTICUS POETRY
Chase your stars fool, life is short. 
ATTICUS POETRY
It was her chaos that made her beautiful. 
ATTICUS POETRY
I aspire to be
an old man
with an old wife
laughing at old jokes
from a wild...
ATTICUS POETRY
I WANT TO BE WITH SOMEONE WHO DREAMS OF DOING EVERYTHING IN LIFE
AND NOTHING ON RAINY SUNDAY AF...
ATTICUS POETRY
Brushing a girl’s hair
behind her ear
once a day
will solve more problems
tha...
ATTICUS POETRY
Love her but leave her wild.
ATTICUS
I hope to arrive to my death, late, in love, and a little drunk.
ATTICUS
I could never love her, the fear of losing would be too strong. 
ATTICUS
I've always resented mirrors for their honesty.
ATTICUS
It's a sad thing, protecting a breakable heart.
ATTICUS
I feel in every girl there is a spirit,
a wild pixie,
that if let go,
would run and d...
ATTICUS
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you cli...
ATTICUS
Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by...
ATTICUS
There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son, ... I wish I could keep 'em all away from you. That...
ATTICUS
Even though I never worked with her, it was still really cool to have Brooke Shields on set. She was...
ATTICUS SHAFFER
My mom thought I might be good for voiceover. She thought I had a cute voice, so maybe I could do a ...
ATTICUS SHAFFER
I was just sitting in Target, just getting over my cold. I blew my nose and I see these people looki...
ATTICUS SHAFFER
When you smiled you had my undivided attention. When you laughed you had my urge to laugh with you. ...
ATTICUS FINCH
A scene gets cut a few frames here and there, but there's a cumulative effect to it, and then th...
ATTICUS ROSS
If you just learn a single trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You ...
ATTICUS FINCH
Courage is not a man with a gun in his hand. It's knowing you're licked before you begin but you beg...
ATTICUS FINCH
There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep 'em all away from you. That's n...
ATTICUS FINCH
All I know, is that I feel extremely blessed to be on TV. It's a hard job, but real life is hard...
ATTICUS SHAFFER
Personally, I do the best work with people I'm closest with. I know what their tastes are, and t...
ATTICUS ROSS
I absolutely loved working with Tim Burton because he is just a creative, outside of the box thinker...
ATTICUS SHAFFER
I like it when I go into a cinema and I'm not aware that I'm there; I'm totally involved...
ATTICUS ROSS
My wife is a classically trained piano player, and she also orchestrates.
ATTICUS ROSS
I love movies. And sometimes it will be a case where I don't notice music.
ATTICUS ROSS
My brother, who's ten years younger than me, worked with me in the studio when he was very young...
ATTICUS ROSS
My wife and I were in a band and worked together on and off since we were 19 or 20.
ATTICUS ROSS
For me, making music is a continuous learning experience, and I think that it feeds itself.
ATTICUS ROSS
Well, I was always really mature for my age. I'm an above-age reader. I'm not trying to come...
ATTICUS SHAFFER
I do talk to myself, just not in a whisper. But I have caught myself sometimes.
ATTICUS SHAFFER
I'm most passionate about anything to do with nature and the simple things. I love taking walks ...
ATTICUS SHAFFER
With 'Gone Girl,' I sat down, and suddenly the end credits were rolling; you just become so ...
ATTICUS ROSS
I love voice over! I just think it is amazing!
ATTICUS SHAFFER
I'm a huge nerd, I admit to that. I love to play video games, I love to read, and of course, I&#...
ATTICUS SHAFFER
I love any comedic zombie movies.
ATTICUS SHAFFER
I don't like horror films. Horror films in the sense of the way horror films are now, like '...
ATTICUS SHAFFER
In voiceover, all you have to worry about is your voice and practicing with your voice and then bein...
ATTICUS SHAFFER
We live in the country. I'm a redneck. No, ha-ha. I live in L.A. County, but more in the hills. ...
ATTICUS SHAFFER
It doesn't matter about money and fame and whatever. I really don't care about that. My thin...
ATTICUS SHAFFER
I've always been homeschooled, so doing it on set is kind of the same thing. My mom makes it ver...
ATTICUS SHAFFER
I don't want this to come off bad at all, but I really don't watch Disney shows. I don't...
ATTICUS SHAFFER
Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune. Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone ...
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