There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol." ... "There was a thing called the soul and a thing called immortality." ... "But they used to take morphia and cocaine." ... "Two thousand pharmacologists and biochemists were subsidized in A.F. 178." ... "Six years later it was being produced commercially. The perfect drug." ... "Euphoric, narcotic, pleasantly hallucinant." ... "All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects." ... "Take a holiday from reality whenever you like, and come back without so much as a headache or a mythology." ... "Stability was practically assured.
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Related Where are You Now? I was there whilst you cried, I was there to comfort you with smile, LUISA NATASHA PARKER nothing's news. it's the same old thing in disguise. only one thing comes without a CHARLES BUKOWSKI Once on a yellow piece of paper with green lines he wrote a poem And he called it "Chops"... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Practice emptiness to the extreme. Keep stillness whole. Myriad things act in concert. LAO TZU (AUTHOR) YI PING ONG (TRANSLATOR) You're next Claire." She laughed. "Nope, not ready. See, we know about this thing called ... TONI ALEO Every so often in the last 20 years, Hollywood has called, ... And every MARGO TIMMINS THE THREE LAWS OF ALL You are never to worship a living soul, Except for three entit... SUZY KASSEM Last night the rain spoke to me slowly, saying, what joy to come falling MARY OLIVER Are we like two stars in a constellation Seeming so close And making so much sense Ye... JUSTIN WETCH the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul, CHARLES BUKOWSKI Take a trip in my mind see all that I've seen, and you'd be called a beast, not a hum... EDWARD HUMES Little sister don't you worry about a thing today Take the heat from the sun Little sister... U2 Poetry And it was at that age... Poetry arrived in search of me. I don’t k... PABLO NERUDA The dead do not need aspirin or sorrow, I suppose. but they might need rain... CHARLES BUKOWSKI If "If freckles were lovely, and day was night, And measles were nice and a... E.E. CUMMINGS I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, And Mourners to and fro Kept treading – treading – till... EMILY DICKINSON This is what I am, I'll say, to leave this written excuse. This is my life. Now it is clea... PABLO NERUDA A precious mouldering pleasure 't is To meet an antique book, In just the dress his centur... EMILY DICKINSON The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might: He did his very best to make... LEWIS CARROLL I KNEW IT WAS OVER when tonight you couldn't make the phone ring when you use... DAPHNE GOTTLIEB The Bear and the Maiden Fair A bear there was, a bear, a bear! All black and b... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN alone with everybody the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in the... CHARLES BUKOWSKI ALICE She drank from a bottle called DRINK ME And she grew so tall, She ate from a pl... SHEL SILVERSTEIN AFTER SCHOOL SPECIAL Dear Mr. Schneider, I attended your elementary Schoo... SUZY KASSEM This was a conversation I had with a so-called-fellow-trekkie the other day: ''So Picard ... MELANIE KAY TAYLOR There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol. ALDOUS HUXLEY Lovecraft says he knows about tentacles but that motherfucker never bedded a girl from We... 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CHARLES OLSON The first music I ever heard was only one hundred and sixty days after I was conceived. ... KAMAND KOJOURI they thought that writing had something to do with the politics of the thing. CHARLES BUKOWSKI I think I feel it The nimble, fleeting emotion That novels and authors desperately HUBERT MARTIN While I slept you stood in the colorful night market with pyramids of bright fruit pi... BRENDA HILLMAN One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept s... MARY OLIVER I went back to the clanging city, I went back where my old loves stayed, But my heart wa... SARA TEASDALE It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom y... EDGAR ALLAN POE End of the Summer It was end of the summer And my heart was broken but i was sm... ARZUM UZUN You know, there’s no pleasure like the joy of being a sexual woman. You can take your ... FIONA THRUST Can I buy you a drink when you get off?" "I don't drink. Alcohol is bad for my legs." ERIC JEROME DICKEY There were once two sisters who were not afriad of the dark because the dark was full of t... JANDY NELSON I was only a child when I learned how to fly I wanted to touch the colors of... TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO There once was a sculptor called Phidias Who had a distaste for the hideous. So he sculpt Aphr... ANON. You remind me of a boy I used to know Same Smile, same easy, laid-back style And man, coul... MALORIE BLACKMAN Love Was Love Will Be But Most of All, Love is. Life Cannot Be Without It I... CINDY MARTINUSEN COLOMA The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind happiness not always... LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI ...It’s hard to watch the game we make of love, like everyone’s playing checkers ... ANDREA GIBSON From birth to death and further on As we were born and introduced into this world, W... VIRGIL KALYANA MITTATA IORDACHE Edie Sedgwick (1943-1971) I don't know how she did it. Fire She was shaking all over... PATTI SMITH With fire and sword the country round Was wasted far and wide, And many a childing mother... ROBERT SOUTHEY I think I'm beginning to understand how hearts fit together. Not like diseased carnations ... RILEY REDGATE "Conversation" God and I in space alone . . . and nobody else in view . . . "And wh... ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Glossa Time goes by, time comes along, All is old and all is new; What is righ... MIHAI EMINESCU DADDY You do not do, you do not do Any more, black shoe In which I have lived l... SYLVIA PLATH when we were kids laying around the lawn on our bellies we often talked CHARLES BUKOWSKI Butterfly Kisses Aged imperfections stitched upon my face years and years of wi... MUSE every mouth you’ve ever kissed was just practice all the bodies you’ve ever undressed<... WARSAN SHIRE There were people who went to sleep last night, poor and rich and white and black, but t... MAYA ANGELOU I mean, d'you know what eternity is? There's this big mountain, see, a mile high, at the end of the ... NEIL GAIMAN Roses are red, Violets are blue, No amount of money, Can stop me from loving you, CHRIS COLFER And there you are on the shore, fitful and thoughtful, trying to attach them ... MARY OLIVER We try a new drug, a new combination of drugs, and suddenly I fall into my life again JANE KENYON who are you really? you are not a name or a height, or a weight or a gende... M.K When I came to see you It hurt me how thin you had become In the months of addiction... DAVID ST. JOHN Everywhere, Everywhere" amazing, how grimly we hold onto our misery, ever defen... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Failing and Flying" Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew. It's the same when lo... JACK GILBERT FORKED BRANCHES We grew up on the same street, You and me. We went to the... SUZY KASSEM I saw thee once - only once - years ago: I must not say how many - but not many. It was a ... EDGAR ALLAN POE [THE VIDEOLAND VIEW:] Rescue Me ... going to be nuts! When ... CALLIE THORNE The Children's Hour Between the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning t... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW all the girls you’ve ever loved, i think i loved them too. interlude for the grand sonata WARSAN SHIRE That thing you thought you'd do You start to think you can't; You always say tomorrow, MARGO T. ROSE during my worst times on the park benches in the jails or living with whores CHARLES BUKOWSKI We are Adam and Eve born out of chaos called creation Ribbing me gave you life MEGAN MCCAFFERTY Turn on the lights, And hide from sight, As we come trick or treating, Throughout th... ANTHONY T. HINCKS I think there's a reason he has come back to Utah, ... For some reason, I got a second <... AMY HALL That's a revealing question because most Americans simply know very little about a complex, immensel... RICHARD BLUMENTHAL Patience, though I have not The thing that I require, I must of force, God wot, Forbear my... SIR THOMAS WYATT You invented me. There is no such earthly being, Such an earthly being there could never be. ANNA AKHMATOVA Why We Tell Stories I Because we used to have leaves and on damp days ... LISEL MUELLER It was a completely different time for me. Now, the children MICHAEL WALKER unless it comes out of your soul like a rocket, unless being still would drive you to... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Great use they have, when in the hands Of one like me, who understands, Who understands the ... CHARLES CHURCHILL Great use they have, when in the hands Of one like me, who understands, Who understands the ... CHARLES CHURCHILL They laid their hands upon my head, They stroked my cheek and brow; And time could heal a hu... DOROTHY PARKER I have studied many times The marble which was chiseled for me— A boat with a furled sai... EDGAR LEE MASTERS Blue Planet Phenomenon. she’s from the pink planet called Constellation he’s f... R.M. ROMARNEY No Goodbye' The floods of tears, Flow for thee, As I remember how it used to be... ANTHONY T. HINCKS JAMIE'S SONG 'KILL ME': In the darkness of the night, you come to me to fight. ... NEHA YAZMIN They're both convinced that a sudden passion joined them. Such certainty is beautiful, WISłAWA SZYMBORSKA Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, Make use of every friend—and every foe. A ... ALEXANDER POPE That time I thought I could not go any closer to grief without dying I wen... MARY OLIVER BLESSINGS ARE IMMEASURABLE You can Lose a child Or a parent, The lov... SUZY KASSEM Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of ... LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI
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