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“He's like a drug for you, Bella.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse

tags: drug, romance, simile

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“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep

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“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst

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“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

tags: humor, life

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VEGETARIANS!!! AND VEGANS!!! — 153 members — last activity Aug 07, 2022 07:24AM
OK so this is a group made for vegetarians and vegans, just a place where we can talk about things and food and stuff. Please keep in mind that should ...more

SPREAD THE LOVE!!!!!!!! — 27 members — last activity Mar 15, 2009 02:49PM
ok so this group is for everyone to join, if you are sad at all or feel the world is useless, come meat some people who feel the same way. we can make ...more

RANDOMNESSS — 87 members — last activity Jun 03, 2011 04:16AM
well we all could use another group right? haha well at least i can. join and make friends and have fun and be random

Reason Reigns & Royal Serf — 175 members — last activity Jan 01, 2010 07:38AM
A group about my novels and other writings, and about friends and other readers. Reason Reigns and Royal Serf - A Hearing http://www.goodreads.com/a ...more

隆 POETRY ! — 22498 members — last activity Apr 14, 2025 05:23PM
No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) 欧宝娱乐 honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg 鈥淕od has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.鈥� 鈥擜nne Sexton On Clouds 鈥� 鈥溾€hat primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about鈥︹€� 鈥擸evgeny Zamyatin 鈥淚f the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn鈥檛 wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.鈥� 鈥擠onald Hall 鈥淧oetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation鈥檚 tears in shoulder blades.鈥� 鈥擝oris Pasternak 鈥淲anted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.鈥� 鈥擟harles Simic 鈥淟anguage is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.鈥� 鈥擥ustave Flaubert 鈥淧oetry is not an expression of the party line. It鈥檚 that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that鈥檚 what the poet does.鈥� 鈥擜llen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women鈥檚 National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

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