Somebody Give us a story Narrate all the places That we’ll never see Give us a haven For our imagination So at least in our minds We can attempt to be free
Charlotte Wessels
Related Stages As every flower fades and as all youth Departs, so life at every ... HERMANN HESSE Our critics make us strong! Our fears make us bold! Our haters make us wise! Our foes... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR At our age the imagination across the sorry facts lifts us to make roses stan... WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS They want us to be afraid. They want us to be afraid of leaving our homes. They want us ... KAMAND KOJOURI When Great Trees Fall When great trees fall, rocks on distant hills shudder, li... MAYA ANGELOU A Litany for Survival For those of us who live at the shoreline standing upon... AUDRE LORDE American Wedding In america, I place my ring on your cock where it belon... ESSEX HEMPHILL At birth and at dawn for each and every day it triumphs over the eclipse. It i... AKILNATHAN LOGESWARAN (Divorce) We’ll remarry someday when we’ve grown, Like royalty who’ve earned the th... CRYSTAL WOODS This world that was our home for a brief spell never brought us anything but pai... OMAR KHAYYáM I like to prowl ordinary places. I feel sorry for us all or glad for us all caught a... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Many of us have gotten so used to playing to the expectations of society, of our families, SCOTT STABILE there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of t... CHARLES BUKOWSKI nothing's news. it's the same old thing in disguise. only one thing comes without a CHARLES BUKOWSKI We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness u... MAYA ANGELOU Well we're waiting here in Allentown, For the Pennsylvania we never found, For the promise... BILLY JOEL NEVER GIVE UP No matter what is going on Never give up Develop the heart Too muc... DALAI LAMA XIV On Generosity On our own, we conclude: there is not enough to go around w... WALTER BRUEGGEMANN In the flush of love's light we dare be brave And suddenly we see that love costs all... MAYA ANGELOU Our favorite games were killing. Our favorite books were death. It had been beaten into us... JOSEPH BATHANTI We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL So are we lost or do we know Which direction we should go Sit around and wait for someone ... LOST PROPHETS we are all like poems. some of us rhyme. some don’t. some are Pulitzer prizes som... SANOBER KHAN From birth to death and further on As we were born and introduced into this world, W... VIRGIL KALYANA MITTATA IORDACHE We're always contradicting ourselves. We want people to tell us apart.... ...yet we don't ... BISCO HATORI Though we might have precious little It's still precious I like that song about this... RUSH There is a desire within each of us, in the deep center of ourselves that we call our hea... GERALD G. MAY In every possibility of a mind May you travel, yet not blind. As a head filled with imag... ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES Overheard on a Saltmarsh" Nymph, nymph, what are your beads? Green glass, gobl... HAROLD MONRO In peace we play and freedom ring, Now let us enjoy a mantra to sing, Down here we know ... ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES What We Want What we want is never simple. We move among the things LINDA PASTAN The More Loving One Looking up at the stars, I know quite well That, for all ... W.H. AUDEN THE UNFORGIVEN Tell me if you've ever had to deal with these kinds of people: ... SUZY KASSEM At the sixes and sevens of our mind lead us oh Lord in Thy might In the moment to decide o... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH . . .because we had survived sisters and brothers, daughters and sons, we discovered bones... LISEL MUELLER when we were kids laying around the lawn on our bellies we often talked CHARLES BUKOWSKI Let there be light! Abba! Father, let there be light! In our dark moments we cry; let there be ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Let us be the joy to find the joy Let us be the love to find the love Let us be kind to fi... DEBASISH MRIDHA A Winter Dream" In winter we’ll travel in a little pink carriage With cushions of ... ARTHUR RIMBAUD Arab children, Corn ears of the future, You will break our chains, Kill the opium in ... نزار قباني It started when we were little kids. Free spirits, but already tormented by our own hands<... ANTHONY KIEDIS Our Cross Our little circle hides in the mind, It's difficult to miss but hard to fi... SHANNON L. ALDER Thus repulsed, our final hope Is flat despair: we must exasperate The Almighty Victor to s... JOHN MILTON Thank God for poverty That makes and keeps us free, That lets us go our unobtrusive way, WILLIAM BLISS CARMAN soulsThat we might break these molds And free our restless souls Start to believe Tha... DAVID GRAY O Life, How oft we throw it off and think, — 'Enough, Enough of life in so much! — her... ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Lately I can't help wanting us to be like other people. For example, if I were a smoker, DEBORAH GARRISON Day n night passing by, No tribute, we cannot deny, We did to world's problems so deep, AKILNATHAN LOGESWARAN If we can forgive what has been done to us . . . If we can forgive what we've done to oth... CHUCK PALAHNIUK We were The Hottentot Venus Draped in our mothers' dresses, Wearing rouge & lipstick,<... YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Change your focus, give power to the positive and starve the negative. We reduce o... NIKKI ROWE Give me love Give me love Give me peace on earth Give me light Give me life GEORGE HARRISON If we were not so single-minded about keeping our lives moving and for once could do nothi... PABLO NERUDA SEA OF LIFE This is not the end, my friend. Just as the ocean sings songs to infinit... SUZY KASSEM Heartland Now that we’ve given our hearts away With the bric-a-brac, we want them... LISEL MUELLER The season was waning fast Our nights were growing cold at last I took her to bed with sil... ROMAN PAYNE And these things that keep alive on departure know that you praise them; transient, ... RAINER MARIA RILKE it doesn't matter if Prince Charles falls off his horse or that the hummingbird is so seldom CHARLES BUKOWSKI Believe it or not, the notions of free will and destiny are not mutually exclusive. Prede... VERA NAZARIAN To Alef, the letter that begins the alphabets of both Arabic and Hebrew- two Semitic ... IBTISAM BARAKAT Oh- my twitchy witchy girl I think you are so nice, I give you bowls of porridge And ... NEIL GAIMAN Overmodulation By Charlotte M Liebel-Fawls You're a cavity in my oasis, You're ... CHARLOTTE M. LIEBEL Let us go where skins are rainbows Enhanced by every hue. Where genders are clouds KAMAND KOJOURI I am five, I will never understand why we are stranded in our selves but in this moment I ... SHARON DOUBIAGO You brought me to places I’d have never thought to go To a trail near the river Whe... JUSTIN WETCH Invade me now, my ruthless friend,
And make me cower in the dark.
Remind me that I'm all a... ARTHUR C. CLARKE While the storm clouds gather far across the sea, Let us swear allegiance to a land that's free,... IRVING BERLIN How long do you think it will take us to cross?” Jefferson asks. “According to the Ma... RAE CARSON We are broken. Our ways are apart. Still we laugh together and taunt. We fight and get hur... IRFA ADAM One of the greatest gifts That life can give to anyone Is the very special love that families... CRAIG S. TUNKS Late Hours" On summer nights the world moves within earshot on the interstate w... LISEL MUELLER Our freedom to say or write whatever we please in this country is holy to me. It is a rare privilege... KURT VONNEGUT The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; WILLIAM WORDSWORTH This is an ode to life. The anthem of the world. For as there are billions of differe... KAMAND KOJOURI you deserve for your heart to be heard- because love lights a fire in us all. it... ALEXANDRA ELLE AFTER SCHOOL SPECIAL Dear Mr. Schneider, I attended your elementary Schoo... SUZY KASSEM I remember our childhood days when life was easy and math problems hard. Mom would he... KAMAND KOJOURI When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing. A... SHERMAN ALEXIE our love like stepping on to a plane sitting down in a car walking on unknown l... SCOTT MCGOLDRICK Lay down Your tired & weary head my friend. We have wept too long Night is fallin... JOSé N. HARRIS Never give all the heart, for love Will hardly seem worth thinking of To passionate women ... W.B. YEATS When I look up at Heaven, I see the souls of those who died Beaming down at me, Wanti... SUZY KASSEM The Doors The End This is the end, beautiful friend This is the end, my ... JIM MORRISON Let us give thanks for our shadows for they are there in the first place because of the pr... KAMAND KOJOURI If god is watching us, the least we can do is be entertaining. --BUMPER STIC... DARYNDA JONES The Son of God perishes that we may not perish. He rises that we may rise. Tha... DAVID HOLDSWORTH I think that's what we all want, in the end. To know that we left footprints when we passed by,... MIKE A. LANCASTER We grow old judging others And ourselves Until life humbles us And makes scared child... KAMAND KOJOURI Dream sets us on fire. Dream gives us direction. Dream betters our potential. Dream h... IFEANYI ENOCH ONUOHA The heart that gives thanks is a happy one, for we cannot feel thankful and unhappy at the same time... DOUGLAS WOOD i'm so hooked on how your mind works, on what you notice, on everything that excites ... AVA i'm so hooked on how your mind works, on what you notice, on everything that excites ... AVA. Charlotte: So how are you? Carrie: I'm good. How are you? Charlotte: Great. Carrie: I to... SEX AND THE CITY As we come marching, marching, we battle too for men, For they are women's children, and we mot... JAMES OPPENHEIM what a shame we all became such fragile, broken things. A memory remains just a tiny spark. HAYLEY WILLIAMS A Brief for the Defense Sorrow everywhere. Slaughter everywhere. If babies a... JACK GILBERT Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hoggy Warty Hogwarts, Teach us something please, Whether we be old and... J.K. ROWLING All it means is that, while our minds may have trouble communicating, our bodies don't have any prob... SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS We sat in the car & the night dropped down until the only sounds were the ... BRIAN ANDREAS RELATIONSHIPS & THE INNER BEING The other is a mirror of our own face; the other is ... SWAMI DHYAN GITEN
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CHARLOTTE KASL You were water to me deep and bold and fathoming' - Praise Song For My Mother by Charlotte... CHARLOTTE MEW I don’t need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore, like I always thought I would. CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to a... CHARLOTTE BRONTë There are very few friends that will lie down with you on empty streets in the middle of the night, ... CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Sometimes you need to sit lonely on the floor in a quiet room in order to hear your own voice and no... CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON It is hard work to control the workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature; but that it may ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I haven’t been very impressed lately. By people, or places, or the way someone said... CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I can’t believe it.’ I whispered. ‘You can’t let him lure you back in, Felicia. He’s ... CHARLOTTE MUNRO So for now, I will miss you like I’ll never see you again, And the next time I see you,<... CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON You’re thinking, maybe it would be easier to let it slip let it go say ”I give up” o... CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON You have to believe that your voice can mean something. You have to believe that what you do matters... CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I was free with every road as my home. No limitations and no commitments. But then summer passed and... CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON So many people will tell you ”no”, and you need to find something you believe in so hard that yo... CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Go outside. Don’t tell anyone and don’t bring your phone. Start walking and keep walking until y... CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top - I think that's t... CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, w... CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG I was obsessed with David Bowie - still am. He's a babe, a total babe. His music is killer; his ... CHARLOTTE SULLIVAN His venture sounds like a banana peel awaiting its victim. CHARLOTTE CURTIS If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and abs... CHARLOTTE BRONTE I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. CHARLOTTE BRONTE An isolated outbreak of virginity is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the m... CHARLOTTE BINGHAM You read and write and sing and experience, thinking that one day these things will build the charac... CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I was a flower that bloomed and sparked way too fast. He took me in ’cause I was pretty in all kin... CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON You were the hardest year of my life and I’ve never been so happy. What does that say about me? CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON 6 months, 2 weeks, 4 days, and I still don’t know which month it was then or what day it... CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON It hurts to breathe. It hurts to live. I hate her, yet I do not think I can exist without her. CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste. CHARLOTTE BRONTë You are no ruin sir--no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about you... CHARLOTTE BRONTë She sang, as requested. There was much about love in the ballad: faithful love that refused to aband... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Your god, sir, is the World. In my eyes, you, too, if not an infidel, are an idolater. I conceive th... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Hurting people you love is the heaviest kind of regret. CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON At that time, I well remember whatever could excite - certain accidents of the weather, for instance... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Jane, my little darling (so I will call you, for so you are), you don't know what you are talking ab... CHARLOTTE BRONTë So now it’s this thing I do. I go away, ever so often, by myself, for myself, to new pla... CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Let me wake up next to you, have coffee in the morning and wander through the city with your hand in... CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON My style very much leans towards the masculine, but I think I am feminine in it - I like the feminin... CHARLOTTE RAMPLING It is a long way off, sir" "From what Jane?" "From England and from Thornfield: and ___" CHARLOTTE BRONTë But I was young and didn’t know better and someone should have told me to capture every ... CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON So they gave me love in form of poison and tiny little pills, programming my emotions, teaching me h... CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I just want to be someone, to mean something to anyone… CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON It doesn’t matter how many times you leave, it will always hurt to come back and remember what you... CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON It’s the beating of my heart. The way I lie awake, playing with shadows slowly climbing up ... CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON As he clutched her in his shaking hands and wept against her, he whispered into her ear, the words t... CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE