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Girls with poison necklaces
to save themselves from torture.
Just as women wear amulets
which hold their rolled up fortunes
transcribed on ola leaf.


Michael Ondaatje

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THE SILENT PEOPLE

Some people are so rude,
Living their lives with no concern for ot...
GIORGE LEEDY Bathroom, maybe? Which is where I need to go."
"Ooh, me, too," Eve said.
The boys rolled ...
RACHEL CAINE Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But...
ROBERT FROST Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower
But only ...
ROBERT FROST They were Catholic, my lovers,

All in an access of crossing themselves,

Partic...
SHAY CAROLINE Good girls hold their heads high by daylight,
Their grace and their virtue soaring with kites,...
ANNA GODBERSEN Hang tight
Hold on
Look up
Stay strong
Hang on
Hold tight
Look strong<...
TAHEREH MAFI Our experimental results agreed with the computational
findings, indicating that these ratchett...
JAVIER LOPEZ Violinists wear the imprint on their necks with pride
For they are the players of harmony.
KAMAND KOJOURI Whom wilt thou find to love ignoble thee
Save Me, save only Me?
All which I took from the...
FRANCIS G. THOMPSON tell me
of something fiercer
than the love with which
i gaze upon you

of...
SANOBER KHAN It happens all the time in heaven,
And some day

It will begin to happen
Again o...
شمس الدین محمد حافظ شیرازی Instead,
she's as still
as a leaf-littered pond,
dark water evaporating,
waiting...
EMMA CAMERON Altruism is for those
who can't endure their desires.
There's a world

as ambigu...
STEPHEN DUNN Some humans are made to trust in their supernatural Creator(s) to watch over them, make their lives ...
HAROUTIOUN BOCHNAKIAN Remember The Dream

You have a choice
Your heart will know
You gotta look back s...
JAMES INGRAM In their quest to hit cloud Nine, our young men and women in
their prime are gradually finding ...
OCHE OTORKPA I grow old … I grow old …
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.

Sha...
T.S. ELIOT Like dew drops

on a lotus leaf
I vanish.
SHINSUI Paper or razor blade, never give up
And just remember just to hold out more
A couple yea...
ED SHEERAN They do not learn, fixed in their ways as they are. You are naïve to
think otherwise. It’s a...
OLIVER BOWDEN IRONY
They invite you
to come view
artifacts
stolen
from your ancestors
IJEOMA UMEBINYUO A hand-rolled cigarette to smoke,
Another one bought from the store.
If he lights one, his...
SANHITA BARUAH „One down,” I said, turning to Kale. He wasn't paying attention. His gaze was fixed on the red s...
JUS ACCARDO The Journey

One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
thou...
MARY OLIVER Option 1: Attempt to back out.

Probable result: Death after painful torture.

O...
NALINI SINGH One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept s...
MARY OLIVER the lost women

I need to know their names
those women I would have walked with,
LUCILLE CLIFTON APPLY WITHIN

You once told me
You wanted to find
Yourself in the world -
A...
SUZY KASSEM When I do count the clock that tells the time,
And see the brave day sunk in hideous night;
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Turn on the lights,
And hide from sight,
As we come trick or treating,
Throughout th...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Dawn's Spawn:

Cause and Effect

Criticizing the next generation reflects on us....
KAMIL ALI Most leaders spend time trying to get others to think highly
of them, when instead they should t...
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON We wear our lives
Like costumes
Use bills and coins like props
In an over budget pro...
SHANE L. KOYCZAN Jesus, take the wheel
Take it from my hands
'Cause I can't do this on my own
I'm lett...
CARRIE UNDERWOOD Teach me, Father, how to go
Softly as the grasses grow;
Hush my soul to meet the shock
Of t...
EDWIN MARKHAM You have known, O Gilgamesh,
What interests me,
To drink from the Well of Immortality.
HERBERT MASON Just looking at them
I grow greedy, as if they were
freshly baked loaves
waiting on t...
LINDA PASTAN Gloomy room
immersed in a scent
of modern cowards
filled with
shapeless creature...
ASPER BLURRY I heard of a man
who says words so beautifully
that if he only speaks their name
wome...
LEONARD COHEN Last night
the rain
spoke to me
slowly, saying,
what joy
to come falling MARY OLIVER who knows if the moon's
a balloon,coming out of a keen city
in the sky--filled with pretty...
E.E. CUMMINGS I HOLD

If I could have had
him,
I could have let
him
go.

COCO J. GINGER We were The Hottentot Venus
Draped in our mothers' dresses,
Wearing rouge & lipstick,<...
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Women Are Not Roses

Women have no
beginning
only continual
flows.
ANA CASTILLO My
name’s Travis. Travis Maddox.”
I rolled my eyes. “I know who you are.”
...
JAMIE MCGUIRE The Scholars
"Bald heads forgetful of their sins,
Old, learned, respectable bald he...
W.B. YEATS Men seldom make passes
At girls who wear glasses.
DOROTHY PARKER The Brain - is wider than the Sky -
For - put them side by side -
The one the other will c...
EMILY DICKINSON Your daughter is ugly.
She knows loss intimately,
carries whole cities in her belly.
...
WARSAN SHIRE I rolled my eyes as the elevator door opened. 'I was thinking more along the lines of Tick and Tock....
T.J. KLUNE A JEWELRY STORE NAMED INDIA

If you hold this
Dazzling emerald
Up to the sky, SUZY KASSEM Hold fast to dreams
for if dreams die
life is a broken-winged bird
that can not fly.<...
LANGSTON HUGHES OLYMPAS:
There is one doubt. When souls attain
Such an unimagined gain
Shall n...
ALEISTER CROWLEY Of course! the path to heaven
doesn't lie down in flat miles.
It's in the imagination
MARY OLIVER You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it never
Rises from the soul, and sways
The heart ...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE never believe a man can change a woman
those men are pretenders
who think
that they c...
نزار قباني The Three D's of Creating True Happiness For All.......

Declutter - Remove all unwanted i...
CHRISTINA SCALISE We grow old judging others
And ourselves
Until life humbles us
And makes scared child...
KAMAND KOJOURI Opusculum paedagogicum
The pears are not viols,
Nudes or bottles.
They resemble nothing els...
WALLACE STEVENS Good God, you don’t give up.”
“Nope.”
I laughed, couldn’t help it, and his
...
J. LYNN Angeline's been hanging out with that dhampir. I just saw them walking off together. Is something go...
RICHELLE MEAD I’d kiss you, too, if I was closer.”(claire)
“I wouldn’t,” Michael said. “I don’t...
RACHEL CAINE Michael rose to his feet and padded down the last few steps silently, came up behind Kim, and leaned...
RACHEL CAINE What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
- Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
Only ...
WILFRED OWEN What passing bells for these who die as cattle?
Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
Only...
WILFRED OWEN Moms are the ones
Who make sure of a lot of things
Like that their kids
Wear nice clo...
NANCY J. CAVANAUGH Uh.. you'er Sophie?" Mrianda ventured
"That's me"
"How old areyou?"
Sophie rolled ker...
DIANNE SYLVAN Hardly had the light been extinguished, when a peculiar trembling began
to affect the netting u...
VICTOR HUGO As long as you're alive...
...you can't put life on hold like you can with a game-so that's why...
HOTARU ODAGIRI What you need is a chick from Camden,' Van Patten says, after recovering from McDermott's statement....
BRET EASTON ELLIS Due to their reluctance to tie
themselves down at a young age, they have the capacity as well ...
BERNARD SALT Run... That's what's going to save you from the deadly virus

"PORNOGRAPHY
DEYTH BANGER In the end... I am fucked up as hell... the problem isn't that I write to someone or speak to someon...
DEYTH BANGER Whatever you have to say, leave
The roots on, let them
Dangle

And the dirt
CHARLES OLSON Time is drowning,
Hearts are burning,
Heads are rolling,
Nothing can save you now, EMORY R. FRIE I hold it truth, with him who sings
To one clear harp in divers tones,
That men may rise o...
ALFRED TENNYSON The future was with Fate. The present was our own.

~ The Poison Belt
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE I believe that we are who we choose to be.

Nobody is going to come and save you. You've g...
BARRY MANILOW From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we hap...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I intend to play. We require a dealer."

Michael’s gaze snapped to her as Langford sneer...
SARAH MACLEAN With every strike of lightning
Comes a memory that lasts
Not a word is left unspoken
JONAS BROTHERS The Chair


I’m writing to you, who made the archaic wooden chair
look like a ...
JAROD KINTZ ...you hold a poem
that functions half as personal
note and half as telescope
to the ...
KRISTEN HENDERSON There were days when I still put on make up
in case you’d come back,
but I wear the sam...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Flowers, cold from the dew,
And autumn's approaching breath,
I pluck for the warm, luxuria...
ANNA AKHMATOVA ...delineated with signs reading:

TOWN OF AMHERST
WATERSHED
NO TRESPASSING
JOHN ELDER ROBISON Watch carefully
the magic that occurs
when you give a person
enough comfort
t...
ATTICUS POETRY The day I became a writer
it wasn't the day a whore paid me in sex
in exchange for one of ...
DAVE MATTHES We'll erase those who want to use us for our family prestige...

...and erase those gir...
BISCO HATORI Before Jerusalem

Now they've come before Jerusalem.
Passions, avar...
CONSTANTINOS P. CAVAFIS Blue Planet Phenomenon.

she’s from the pink planet called Constellation
he’s f...
R.M. ROMARNEY No one is exempt
and everyone's pain has a different smell.

At night, when all the...
CRAIG RAINE The word
was born in the blood,
grew in the dark body, beating,
and took flight through the...
PABLO NERUDA O smile, going where? O upturned look:
new, warm, receding surge of the heart--;
alas, we ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Interesting how fashion is cyclical,” Jaccob said when she came out of the store with two black pl...
ERIK SCOTT DE BIE We Have a Chance
To Save Lives
If We Don't Take It
We May Regret It
Like We Did<...
WIDAD AKREYI i can't hold onto love.
i'm not gentle enough.

i always end up
crushing the thi...
AVA. My confession begins," Father S said, "as the confessions of many men begin - with three words"
TIFFANY REISZ Under the Earth I go,
On the oak leaf I stand.
I ride on the filly
That was never foaled,<...
ANON.

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MICHAEL BOLTON The entire business world has figured out how to make huge buckets of money without hiring us to wor...
MICHAEL MOORE As a kid, I watched 'Bugs Bunny' cartoons, and for some reason Pepe Le Pew, the indomitable ...
MICHAEL PATERNITI I made a very conscious effort to finish 'The Cypress House' before 'So Cold the River&#...
MICHAEL KORYTA The United States contributes to peace in both by serving as a buffer between and among regional pow...
MICHAEL MANDELBAUM I used a kind of gray-green early on in my practice for painting steel, to make it look more like it...
MICHAEL GRAVES With 'Black Rain,' I spent a lot of time with homicide detectives, and I spent a lot of time...
MICHAEL DOUGLAS Never eat broccoli when there are cameras around.
MICHAEL STIPE I've always loved going to see Broadway shows. I've seen 'em all: Rent, Chorus Line, Cat...
MICHAEL SHOWALTER To this day, I believe the unity of the world's countries in the fight against terror is more powerf...
MICHAEL DELONG Talking about Apple v. Microsoft without mentioning the Internet and the browser is like talking abo...
MICHAEL ARRINGTON You can't be elected president without passing though Iowa and bowing down before corn-based eth...
MICHAEL POLLAN A boundary is really something artificial we made up. The ecosystem and landscape continue.
MICHAEL FROME I'm a career Air Force officer. We have a saying in the Air Force: 'If you want people to be...
MICHAEL HAYDEN For a brief moment, Ian Fleming made being an Englishman seem sexy, even to the French. He should ha...
MICHAEL KORDA In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the trut...
MICHAEL MUSTO Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
MICHAEL WICKETT I moved from Moscow to Rome with my family and two bicycles in 1998, and spent a lot of that year- a...
MICHAEL SPECTER You get to about 65 or 70 and you lose friends and the world does seem to be an endlessly difficult ...
MICHAEL MORPURGO I have not much love for the bright lights - unless it's the sun creeping up over the horizon.
MICHAEL LEUNIG The French consider themselves the guardians of the world's culture and do not bother to hide th...
MICHAEL KORDA Something ancient in us bends us toward the origins of the whole thing. We either drown in the split...
MICHAEL MEADE Through an arbitrary problem, I had arrived at a tenet of good writing: brevity wins.
MICHAEL WINTER The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while q...
MICHAEL KORDA We all fly. Once you leave the ground, you fly. Some people fly longer than others.
MICHAEL JORDAN The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and pea...
MICHAEL JORDAN When I was young, I had to learn the fundamentals of basketball. You can have all the physical abili...
MICHAEL JORDAN You have to build up to green smoothies. Everyone loves fruit smoothies: you can add a handful of ba...
MICHAEL GREGER As you eat more healthily, your palate changes - it's amazing. Your taste buds constantly adapt:...
MICHAEL GREGER In my experience, people are usually fired for reasons having to do with budgetary constraints, inco...
MICHAEL SHERMER Some travelers collect souvenirs, postcards, or bumper stickers; I bring home a pencil from the vari...
MICHAEL DIRDA Proteins are the machinery of living tissue that builds the structures and carries out the chemical ...
MICHAEL BEHE My brothers were tremendous shack builders. My shacks were horrible. My brothers once built a two-st...
MICHAEL KEATON In order to have greater visibility of the larger cyber threat landscape, we must remove the governm...
MICHAEL MCCAUL I always thought of myself as a kind of literary bureaucrat. And that was never going to be enough f...
MICHAEL KORDA What I did, you know, being away from my family, letting so many people down. I let myself down, not...
MICHAEL VICK That wasn't the way that things was supposed to be. And all because the so-called culture that I...
MICHAEL VICK Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an ho...
MICHAEL ENDE In Eastern Europe, the past is not only always hovering over the present, it is not even passed. It ...
MICHAEL KORDA Up to a thousand milligrams of caffeine is considered safe for most people, which translates into ab...
MICHAEL GREGER T. E. Lawrence was far more than a glamorous, swashbuckling, heroic figure in flowing robes mounted ...
MICHAEL KORDA I still believe the lessons I learned when I was raised in a Roman Catholic household. Like, it'...
MICHAEL MOORE I first went to Cambodia in 2002, primarily, as it turned out, to change diapers. My wife had work i...
MICHAEL PATERNITI Going to Cambodia to cover the genocide trials, I did read a lot about the Khmer Rouge; I read a lot...
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