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#482701voted by our readers
By Krazy.Katie GOLD
Sparks, Nevada

While everyone around me sleeps the night away, I'm awake with anxiety the monster that wants to play. I can feel my heart beat radiating through my back I can feel anothe...
Krazy.Katie GOLD, Sparks, Nevada
12 articles 0 photos 6 comments

Favorite Quote:
Shoot for the moon, even if you miss you&#039;ll fall among the stars<br /> What is always right isn&#039;t popular, what&#039;s popular isn&#039;t always right


#482702 Poetry
By MeganLF GOLD
Dundurn, Other
MeganLF GOLD, Dundurn, Other
19 articles 0 photos 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
A writer&rsquo;s brain is full of little gifts, like a pi&ntilde;ata at a birthday party. It&rsquo;s also full of demons, like a pi&ntilde;ata at a birthday party in a mental hospital.

#482703 Poetry
By MysticMusic ELITE
Waterloo, Other
MysticMusic ELITE, Waterloo, Other
116 articles 0 photos 118 comments

Favorite Quote:
&ldquo;You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.&rdquo; -Mae West<br /> &quot;It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.&quot; - Leonardo Da Vinci

#482704 Poetry
Aabarb BRONZE, Tenafly, New Jersey
1 article 0 photos 0 comments
#482705 Poetry
shivasfire PLATINUM, Ashland, Oregon
20 articles 0 photos 11 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;I will never let schooling interfere with my education.&quot; (-forgot who it&#039;s by though)<br /> also &quot;When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.&quot;-Jimi Hendrix

#482706 Poetry
NeverFallTooHard PLATINUM, Hartford, Wisconsin
24 articles 5 photos 98 comments

Favorite Quote:
Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.~ Rumi<br /> Realisim, in painting, is what one wants to see, not what they really see. ~ Janet Fish

#482707 Poetry
hemirocks BRONZE, Sandy,, Utah
2 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
&ldquo;he who is not courageous enough to take risk will accomplish nothing in life&rdquo;<br /> <br /> Muhammad Ali

#482708 Poetry
By AngelGraham GOLD
Nashville, Tennessee
AngelGraham GOLD, Nashville, Tennessee
16 articles 0 photos 4 comments

Favorite Quote:
death is guaranteed and life is a given so quit living as if you have tomorrow.

#482709 Poetry
By punkr0cker365 ELITE
Bedford, New York
punkr0cker365 ELITE, Bedford, New York
100 articles 2 photos 13 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;I&#039;d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.&quot;<br /> Kurt Cobain

#482710 Poetry
By possiblyskeptical BRONZE
Briarwood, New York
possiblyskeptical BRONZE, Briarwood, New York
1 article 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
Sometimes it works to think in the opposite direction. I created that quote, by the way.