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The exceeding brightness of this early sun
Makes me conceive how dark I have become.


Wallace Stevens

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A jet of memory that makes glad the sun.
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Makes a pretty young girl dream of love.
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from behind my ear

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I have a light
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And dark as winter was ...
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Person 2: "Let me get closer...I ha...
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& through this place of
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(with brightness of peace) <...
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the cattails sway
and the bamboo
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It's a dark whisper calling to me.
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Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it,
Stands ...
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[Give me the splendid si...
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"How do you know?"
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I’m hearing the stars calling me ;
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Pink makes me laugh.
Pink makes me love her.
Pink makes it all w...
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i do not know how to un-feel
and to not feel
is to stop the sun.
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Which wrinkles will devour;
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Queens h...
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summer-winter....
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Uh-huh," Iggy said, trying to sound bored.
Were you born that way?"
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that you never loved me.
And it's sad
because I don't think y...
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One envies...
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He: Distance makes us realize how much we mis...
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where we come from
a...
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it w...
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day after day,
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Travel gives me a sense of freedom,
Travel makes me come...
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“I’m not wasting anything.”
�...
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how all disputes ...
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Now I cant call you anymore…
I cant hear your calming voice,
I c...
JJM no light no dark no you no me
know light know dark know you know me
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And that make...
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until I could almost forget
how restless I’d become.
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In this moment, I am free to be me.
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Where have you gone?
And why so long?
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DAN STEVENS My dad tells me that he took us to a pantomime when I was very, very small - panto being a sort of E...
DAN STEVENS We take so many of our freedoms for granted nowadays - I can travel where I like, I can have a baby ...
DAN STEVENS I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awe...
DAN STEVENS All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others....
DAN STEVENS Music is a lady that I still love because she gives me the air that I breathe. We need all sorts of ...
CAT STEVENS I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far rem...
CAT STEVENS Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts.
ABEL STEVENS If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million way...
CAT STEVENS Destiny is for people who are too lazy to create alternate timelines.
R. STEVENS Pride is a powerful narcotic, but it doesn't do much for the auto-immune system.
STUART STEVENS I've never tried to find my real parents. I'm very grateful to my mum and dad for adopting m...
DAN STEVENS I really wanted to be born a woman. It all started there. A South American woman. And I'm upset ...
FISHER STEVENS Everything I do is for the pleasure of Allah.
CAT STEVENS I think having children is the most amazing thing.
RACHEL STEVENS I love the live performances and Las Vegas. I also like making films that are being discovered by an...
CONNIE STEVENS Nothing you wear is more important than your smile.
CONNIE STEVENS A British porch is a musty, forbidding non-room in which to fling a sodden umbrella or a muddy pair ...
DAN STEVENS The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in...
DAN STEVENS I was more secure being a mother than I was walking on a set.
CONNIE STEVENS My kids are pretty secure, bright, and know who they are.
CONNIE STEVENS I am from Brooklyn, NY, so we could not have many pets, but I always had at least two dogs.
CONNIE STEVENS I am a New Yorker.
CONNIE STEVENS I love being Italian.
CONNIE STEVENS I made the decision a long time ago that I had an obligation to my children that I happily fulfilled...
CONNIE STEVENS Once you have an animal, you have to commit to it. They need a sense of freedom, but, of course, the...
CONNIE STEVENS It's important for us to latch onto the people that we love.
CONNIE STEVENS She will be successful who is easy to start and hard to stop.
CONNIE STEVENS