Sunset in the ethereal waves:
I cannot tell if the day
is ending, or the world, or if
the secret of secrets is inside me again.
Anna Akhmatova
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by Oriah Mountain Dreamer
It doesn't interest me what you do for a li...
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I want you to know
one thing.
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And, in parting from you now,
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Yo...
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In the darkness of the night,
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...
NEHA YAZMIN Ponder deep wisdom, dark or clear,
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ARNOLD BENNETT Spilling a Secret
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will have varying
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Bring it on-
And let truth be my existence.
Value my life-
And tel...
GIORGE LEEDY Little Fly
Thy summers play,
My thoughtless hand
Has brush'd away.
Am not ...
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Time goes by, time comes along,
All is old and all is new;
What is righ...
MIHAI EMINESCU An outline, my body, no mass or feeling,
A dark reflection spread from floor to ceiling,
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A child looking for attention.
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...
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Keep you in the dark you know they all pretend
Keep you in the dark an...
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"Give me a reason why I shouldn't."
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SARAH J. MAAS In the beginning there was nothing, and then god created "me".
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And drink and sing,
Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing.
If t...
WILLIAM BLAKE If I never see you again
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inside
outside
on my fin...
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If I look to the world with hearts in my eyes
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MAYA ANGELOU LITTLE DOGS RHAPSODY IN THE NIGHT
(PERCY THREE)
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...
MARY OLIVER Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow--
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EDGAR ALLAN POE WORTHY
If you ever decide to feel— feel this:
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COCO J. GINGER To the Hesitating Purchaser:
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Storm and adventure,...
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is love.
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of solitude,
under the burden<...
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or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots ...
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Your Ally Been Ensnared.
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Break T...
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Love Will Be
But Most of All,
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I...
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ANA CASTILLO if i
or anybody don't
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my next meal's coming from...
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white. ...
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and I invented you
and that's why we don't
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on this...
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What of it, if the paper will be burned?
I write our names ...
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PATRICK ROTHFUSS If one sets aside time
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I am in the next seat.
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you wil...
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If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up.
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ANNA AKHMATOVA If someone someday in this country Decides to raise a memorial to me, I give my consent to this fest...
ANNA AKHMATOVA If someone someday in this countryDecides to raise a memorial to me,I give my consent to this festiv...
ANNA AKHMATOVA All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead.
ANNA AKHMATOVA I seem to myself, as in a dream,
An accidental guest in this dreadful body.
ANNA AKHMATOVA I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed... here, where I endu...
ANNA AKHMATOVA Wild honey smells of freedom
The dust - of sunlight
The mouth of a young girl, like a vi...
ANNA AKHMATOVA You will hear thunder and remember me,
and think: she wanted storms...
ANNA AKHMATOVA Now that you're there, where everything is knowntell me:
What else lived in that house beside...
ANNA AKHMATOVA If someone someday in this country
Decides to raise a memorial to me,
I give my consent to t...
ANNA AKHMATOVA This land, although not my native land,
Will be remembered forever.
And the sea's lightly ...
ANNA AKHMATOVA Each of our lives is a Shakespearean drama raised to the thousandth degree.
ANNA AKHMATOVA The evening sky is gold and vast.
I’m soothed by April’s cool caress.
You’re late. T...
ANNA AKHMATOVA I myself, from the very beginning,
Seemed to myself like someone's dream or delirium
Or a ...
ANNA AKHMATOVA I know: yes, no, even I must tear off
The delicate daisy petals.
Everyone on earth is dest...
ANNA AKHMATOVA The celebrations
Of secret nonmeetings are empty,
Unspoken conversations,
Unuttered w...
ANNA AKHMATOVA We are all carousers and loose women here;
How unhappy we are together!
ANNA AKHMATOVA And this tenderness was not like
That which a certain poet
At the beginning of the century...
ANNA AKHMATOVA All that I am hangs by a thread tonight
ANNA AKHMATOVA Let whoever wants to, relax in the south,
And bask in the garden of paradise.
Here is the ...
ANNA AKHMATOVA Song falls silent, music is dumb,
But the air burns with their fragrance,
And white winter...
ANNA AKHMATOVA This cruel age has deflected me,
like a river from this course.
Strayed from its familiar ...
ANNA AKHMATOVA Flowers, cold from the dew,
And autumn's approaching breath,
I pluck for the warm, luxuria...
ANNA AKHMATOVA We don't know how to say goodbye,
We wander on, shoulder to shoulder
Already the sun is go...
ANNA AKHMATOVA You invented me. There is no such earthly being,
Such an earthly being there could never be. ANNA AKHMATOVA Regarding myself as a mere echo,
Cave-like, unintelligible and nocturnal . . .
ANNA AKHMATOVA How the miracle of our meeting
Shone there and sang,
I didn't want to return
From the...
ANNA AKHMATOVA A land not mine, still
forever memorable,
the waters of its ocean
chill and fresh. ANNA AKHMATOVA Though you are three times more beautiful than angels,
Though you are the sister of the river w...
ANNA AKHMATOVA We learned not to meet anymore,
We don't raise our eyes to one another,
But we ourselves w...
ANNA AKHMATOVA I have a lot of work to do today;
I need to slaughter memory,
Turn my living soul to sto...
ANNA AKHMATOVA And you know, I agree to everything:
I will condemn, I will forget, I will give comfort to the ...
ANNA AKHMATOVA I know beginnings, I know endings too,
and life-in-death, and something else
I'd rather no...
ANNA AKHMATOVA Forgive me, that I manage badly,
Manage badly but live gloriously,
That I leave traces of ...
ANNA AKHMATOVA The word landed with a stony thud
Onto my still-beating breast.
Nevermind, I was prepare...
ANNA AKHMATOVA Your voice is wild and simple.
You are untranslatable
Into any one tongue.
ANNA AKHMATOVA You will hear thunder and remember me,
And think: she wanted storms. The rim
Of the sky ...
ANNA AKHMATOVA I defend
Not my voice, but my silence
ANNA AKHMATOVA Let my heiress have full rights,
Live in my house, sing songs that I composed.
Yet how slo...
ANNA AKHMATOVA No other looked into her secret eyes.
Nobody dared.
ANNA AKHMATOVA As the future ripens in the past,
so the past rots in the future --
a terrible festival of...
ANNA AKHMATOVA I am in the middle of it: chaos and poetry; poetry and love and again, complete chaos. Pain, disorde...
ANNA AKHMATOVA Безвольно слабеют колени,
И кажется, нечем дышать... ...
ANNA AKHMATOVA Eu, como um rio, Fui desviada por estes duros tempos. Deram-me uma vida interina. E ela pôs-se a fl...
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ANNA KENDRICK I think professionally I admire people and the way they've handled their careers and being in th...
ANNA SILK 'Cinderella' the cartoon scared me. I watched the bits with the mice, and the scenes with th...
ANNA KENDRICK If I don't do laundry today, I'm gonna have to buy new clothes tomorrow.
ANNA PAQUIN I'd always been extremely fascinated by the French Nuit Blanche, which is a weekend that they ha...
ANNA WINTOUR If one comes across sometimes as being cold or brusque, it's simply because I'm striving for...
ANNA WINTOUR Oh, if I had only known then what I know now, I would have stopped it last year when I was still you...
ANNA LEE I was a star in England, but I've never been a star in America. Now I am.
ANNA LEE They see me wheeling around in a beautiful gown, and they realize you can look elegant, and you can ...
ANNA LEE My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.
ANNA LEE Yes, I'm a great believer in angels.
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ANNA KENDRICK What, I sometimes wonder, would it be like if I lived in a country where winter is a matter of a few...
ANNA NEAGLE We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.
ANNA FREUD It is well within the order of things
That man should listen when his mate sings;
But the true...
ANNA WICKHAM I don't usually drink caffeine so that when I need it, it actually does something.
ANNA KENDRICK Tessa has an obsession with Target that I’ll never understand.
ANNA TODD It's ironic really, that the man who hates the world is most loved by it
ANNA TODD Just because he can't love you the way you want him to doesn't mean he does't love you with everythi...
ANNA TODD Innovation is the calling card of the future.
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ANNA PUMP I've been acting since second grade, and I just remember when I first moved to New York and I wa...
ANNA CAMP I never intended being a business person I wanted to be a fashion designer.
ANNA SUI Familiarity breeds content
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ANNA BRADLEY I desire Virtue, though I love her not-
I have no faith in her when she is got:
I fear that sh...
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ANNA GODBERSEN Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that m...
ANNA MAGNANI I want to do stage again, because there just aren't words for how great it is. People say that a...
ANNA KENDRICK A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.
ANNA JAMESON What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are
ANNA JAMESON Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never
ANNA JAMESON Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, a...
ANNA JAMESON The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself
ANNA JAMESON Trust in my affection for you.
ANNA JAMESON Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth
ANNA JAMESON Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.
ANNA JAMESON I just got on Twitter because there was some MTV film blog that quoted me on something really innocu...
ANNA KENDRICK I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consist...
ANNA QUINDLEN Love is all right, as things go, but lovers can be a terrible waste of a girl's time.
ANNA GODBERSEN Create your own style… let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
ANNA WINTOUR In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.
ANNA QUINDLEN Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They ar...
ANNA QUINDLEN That is what I want to tell you about: the girls with their short skirts and bright eyes and big-cit...
ANNA GODBERSEN No, I do not need an outrageous quest to prove my worth. I deserve happiness -- happiness on my own ...
ANNA BAYES My troubles are all over, and I am at home; and often before I am quite awake, I fancy I am still in...
ANNA SEWELL All at once I feel desperate, outraged. Why am I alone doomed to spend nights of torment, with an un...
ANNA KAVAN It is good people who make good places.
ANNA SEWELL The world men inhabit is rather bleak. It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerabilit...
ANNA FORD Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.
ANNA FREUD Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.
ANNA JAMESON In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually en...
ANNA JAMESON All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and j...
ANNA JAMESON I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is ther...
ANNA FREUD Let's face it, there are no plain women on television.
ANNA FORD Equal opportunity is good, but special privilege is better.
ANNA CHENNAULT Though I am an old horse, and have seen and heard a great deal, I never yet could make out why men a...
ANNA SEWELL The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the w...
ANNA QUINDLEN What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause, but in the satisfaction of feel...
ANNA PAVLOVA Order is a lovely thing; on disarray it lays its wing, teaching simplicity to sing.
ANNA BRANCH The living are made of nothing but flaws. The dead, with each passing day in the afterlife, become m...
ANNA GODBERSEN I think that anyone who comes upon a Nautilus machine suddenly will agree with me that its prototype...
ANNA QUINDLEN All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and...
ANNA JAMESON I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part o...
ANNA QUINDLEN I think that anyone who comes upon a Nautilus machine suddenly will agree with me that its prototype...
ANNA QUINDLEN I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is the...
ANNA FREUD A finished person is a boring person.
ANNA QUINDLEN There's a certain kind of conversation you have from time to time at parties in New York about a new...
ANNA QUINDLEN Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It's simply a ...
ANNA LAPPE Or what about the statue in California currently said to be crying bloody tears? Why worry about the...
ANNA QUINDLEN O ye of little faith, who believe that somehow the birth of Christ is dependent upon acknowledgment ...
ANNA QUINDLEN We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not s...
ANNA SEWELL The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by...
ANNA QUINDLEN While I wouldn't wish being teased on anyone, I think it eventually leads to a kind of solidarit...
ANNA KENDRICK It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotion...
ANNA FREUD I play a character every day of my life, and I don't want to play a character as myself. They ca...
ANNA FRIEL I'm Anna Paquin. I'm bisexual and I give a damn.
ANNA PAQUIN I think it's an amazing quality to be able to roll with the punches and not be totally ruined as...
ANNA PAQUIN In order to satirize adequately, I think you need to bring people down to Earth and be like, 'Ye...
ANNA CHLUMSKY I was very adept at acquiring languages.
ANNA HELD Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother t...
ANNA QUINDLEN When moms and dads put their kids in acting class, good luck. Because you're just filling them w...
ANNA CHLUMSKY To me, accessorizing is the most fun part of an outfit. While I don't think you can't rely o...
ANNA KENDRICK I'm just a normal person. It's not like I come home and think about opera. My thoughts are a...
ANNA NETREBKO I wasn't academically successful. And maybe I've spent a lot of my career trying to make up ...
ANNA WINTOUR There is no disgrace in working. There was no silver spoon around at the time I was born.
ANNA HELD If I get married, I think I'd pick out a newspaperman rather than a millionaire. A newspaperman ...
ANNA HELD Most women are indulgent of themselves. This is a mistake. It should be only the reward of old age.
ANNA HELD No one could possibly look all the time like my photographs. It is dreadfully hard to live up to the...
ANNA HELD For a married woman to flirt is a sin.
ANNA HELD How many women have the courage to start properly with a cold, cold bath early in the morning? I jum...
ANNA HELD It is quite lovely being single, and I much prefer it.
ANNA HELD My little dog, he did not get ill. It is so funny that people get ill on a boat and dogs do not.
ANNA HELD No one ever tells us the truth, even those we love.
ANNA HELD People look at me and look, but I do not care.
ANNA HELD The more they applaud, the bigger your salary will be.
ANNA HELD I do not say anything from jealousy.
ANNA HELD I know I am very beautiful.
ANNA HELD Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, ...
ANNA HELD You'll never catch a man if you let him think you are too smart.
ANNA HELD Charm them with your presence as soon as they look at you.
ANNA HELD We must go fast, because the race is against time.
ANNA HELD Yes, I am seeking a husband. As soon as the right man asks me, I shall say, 'It is not good for ...
ANNA HELD Costumes and scenery alone will not attract audiences.
ANNA HELD Some women flirt more with what they say, and some with what they do.
ANNA HELD To put on a corset properly is as much of an art as to make a corset properly.
ANNA HELD It is a temptation for me to wear all my rings at once.
ANNA HELD One does not re-light a dead cigarette.
ANNA HELD I think the eyes flirt most. There are so many ways to use them.
ANNA HELD A woman should be like a single flower, not a whole bouquet.
ANNA HELD When our bodies are sick and people extend their sympathy, bring us soup, offer up solutions. When o...
ANNA AKANA My father is an acupuncturist, and the way he practices is very free. For me, he's like an artis...
ANNA MOUGLALIS Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.
ANNA QUINDLEN Developed countries and advanced developing countries must open their markets for products from the ...
ANNA LINDH We need the UN, to deal with the threats to our common security from nuclear, chemical and biologica...
ANNA LINDH There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are...
ANNA QUINDLEN Remember even though the outside world might be raining, if you keep on smiling the sun will soon sh...
ANNA LEE Regional exchange can be a source of growth and development, and of enhancing good governance.
ANNA LINDH A woman must make her fortune before she is 30; or work after she is 30; or get married.
ANNA HELD I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct t...
ANNA KENDRICK I think tights make a comeback out of necessity every season: you can only go so far with naked legs...
ANNA KENDRICK There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn yo...
ANNA QUINDLEN It's very important to take risks. I think that research is very important, but in the end you h...
ANNA WINTOUR Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.
ANNA QUINDLEN Part of the pleasure of editing 'Vogue,' one that lies in a long tradition of this magazine,...
ANNA WINTOUR The right to happiness is fundamental.
ANNA PAVLOVA We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees.
ANNA FREUD I was never the class clown or anything like that. When I was growing up and doing theatre in Seattl...
ANNA FARIS It’s always about timing. If it’s too soon, no one understands. If it’s too late, everyone’s...
ANNA WINTOUR There was no pleasure like being envied on a mass scale.
ANNA GODBERSEN Interesting" people were her favorite hobby. She collected them: the type who did gay things late at...
ANNA GODBERSEN I just adore Kate Winslet. I love her because you're never aware of all the stuff that's goi...
ANNA TORV The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; th...
ANNA QUINDLEN You can relax more when you're playing a silly character than when you're playing a really r...
ANNA KENDRICK Nobody pulls a prank like George Clooney.
ANNA KENDRICK The consummate gentleman on the planet today is George Clooney, who never fails to go the extra mile...
ANNA KENDRICK I'm not a gambler, let's just say that, nor have I ever been a dealer at a casino.
ANNA GUNN