It should be my right to mourn someone who has yet to leave this world but no longer wants to be part of mine.
LANG LEAVMost people want to save the entire world. It’s a lovely thought, and I’m not saying it’s not a noble pursuit-but it’s impossible to save everyone. You just have to pick your little corner of the world and focus your energy there. That’s the only way you will ever make a difference.
More Lang Leav Quotes
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Some days I feel like my soul is being pulled in one direction and my heart in another.
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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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That’s the thing about writers – on one hand everything is sacred to them, but, on the other, nothing really is.
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The things that seem to matter less, are the ones we put on show.
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The briefest moment shared with you-the longest on my mind.
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Every time I see my name, I hear it in your voice.
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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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I have buried myself so deep in my words that sometimes I can’t tell if I am the person writing or the one hiding between the lines.
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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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The feeling is like the ocean. Sometimes calm and still; other times, it’s a hurricane.
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I wish I could put a pen in your hand and gently remind you how the world has given you poetry and now you must give it back.
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I don’t think all writers are sad, she said. I think it’s the other way around- all sad people write.
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Now I know being close to you was never about the proximity.
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For me, that was the death of the word, or; because now, there is no other. It was the end of the word, and; for I love only you.
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When two souls fall in love, there is nothing else but the yearning to be close to the other. The presence that is felt through a hand held, a voice heard, or a smile seen.
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