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Everything looks better with my eyes closed. ↗

— Rick Springfield

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Sorrow is knowledge: They who know the most must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth, the tree of knowledge is not that of life. ↗

— George Gordon Byron

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At first first nothing will happen to us and later on it will happen to us again. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

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Life is unbearable pain. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

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To risk life to save a smile on a face of a woman or a child is the secret of chivalry. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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The life we’re given is on a thread, so wear it well. ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

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It seems only yesterday I used to believe there was nothing under my skin but light. If you cut me I could shine. But now when I fall upon the sidewalks of life, I skin my knees. I bleed. ↗

— Billy Collins

#growing-up #poetry #life

We are all old-timers, each of us holds a locked razor. ↗

— Robert Lowell

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Poetry doesn’t pay. But I need it. And so do you. ↗

— Cory Basil

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You are not worthless. Even if you've been called that your entire life. ↗

— Kevin Walker

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