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I wanted everything because I didn’t want anything enough.

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It is the mark of a great poet to write words that feel as though they have stood witness to your most intimate memory of love.
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Greatness Intimate Love Memories Poet Writing Yourself
In the wrong hands, your past is a weapon.
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Hands Past Weapon Wrong Yourself
I think that bothers me more than anything. That he could look in my eyes and tell me something that is completely contrary to the truth.
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Eyes Myself Thinking Truth
I don’t know how you are so familiar to me-or why it feels less like I am getting to know you and more as though I am remembering who you are. How every smile, every whisper brings me closer to the impossible conclusion that I have known you before, I have loved you before-in another time, a different place, some other existence.
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Difference Different Existence Feeling Impossible Known Love Myself Place Remember Smile
Have you ever loved a rose, and bled against her thorns; and swear each night to let her go, then love her more by dawn.
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Herself Let Go Love Morning
The second I tried to tell myself I wasn’t in love was the moment I realized I was.
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Love Moments Myself Realize
We were born to walk this world in intersecting lines.
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Born Love Togetherness
Give me something I can write about.
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Myself Story Writing
Sometimes I am caught between poetry and prose, like two lovers I can’t decide between. Prose says to me, let’s build something long and lasting. Poetry takes me by the hand, and whispers, come with me, let’s get lost for awhile.
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Hands Lost Lover Myself Poetry
What I feel for you is at once the expression of language and the absence of it.
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Absence Expression Feeling Language Myself
We had no ending, no said goodbye. For all my life, I’ll wonder why.
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Ending Life Myself Wonder
There are things we sacrifice for love, that we willingly give. But no one who loves you will ever ask you to give up more than you are willing.
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Give Up Love Sacrifice Willing Yourself
It was a question I had worn on my lips for days – like a loose thread on my favourite sweater I couldn’t resist pulling – despite knowing it could all unravel around me. “Do you love me, I ask?” In your hesitation I found my answer.
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Finding Hesitate Lips Love Myself Question Sweater
Where are you?” She asked. “I have been searching all my life.” “Stop looking for me,” Love replied, “and I will find you.
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Finding Life Love Myself Searching
Doesn’t your soul remain the age you were when you first fell in love?
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Age Fall In Love Soul Yourself
Knowing sleep will set it right – if you were not to wake.
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Known Right Sleep Wake Up Yourself

I wanted everything because I didn’t want anything enough.

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