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By Crozby GOLD
Woodruff, Wisconsin

What a strange saying, “Ignorance is bliss,” I find it to be rather hit and miss; On one hand, it prevents a life of pain, Shields its victims from emoti...
Crozby GOLD, Woodruff, Wisconsin
11 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
The names are fake, but the story is real;<br /> <br /> When wealth is held as one’s only ideal, <br /> <br /> And believed to be the key to success,<br /> <br /> Well, then I hope that in peace they may rest.


#7382 Poetry
Boosflash DIAMOND, Papillion, Nebraska
55 articles 0 photos 2066 comments

Favorite Quote:
What the front door.

#7383 Poetry
By mariacangro14 GOLD
Staten Island, New York
mariacangro14 GOLD, Staten Island, New York
10 articles 0 photos 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
“There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald

#7384 Poetry
By Marysia PLATINUM
Halifax, Virginia
Marysia PLATINUM, Halifax, Virginia
33 articles 0 photos 12 comments

Favorite Quote:
"It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live."<br /> -Victor Hugo

#7385 Poetry
By Rhiannon_4 DIAMOND
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Rhiannon_4 DIAMOND, Sioux Falls, South Dakota
62 articles 87 photos 200 comments

Favorite Quote:
If you chase two rabbits, you will lose them both. <br /> - Native American proverb<br /> <br /> Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.<br /> - Dylan Thomas<br /> <br /> What is past is past -- it is the present and the future that concern us.<br /> - Hiawatha, founder of the Iroquois Confederacy

#7386 Poetry
By exact-solitude BRONZE
Whitney Point, New York
exact-solitude BRONZE, Whitney Point, New York
3 articles 0 photos 0 comments
#7387 Poetry
By JWolmutt-2005 BRONZE
Oroville, California
JWolmutt-2005 BRONZE, Oroville, California
2 articles 0 photos 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
"We don't choose where we come from, but we can choose where we go from there." -The Perks of Being a Wallflower

#7388 Poetry
By klee2025 GOLD
Lynchburg, Virginia
klee2025 GOLD, Lynchburg, Virginia
10 articles 0 photos 0 comments
#7389 Poetry
By 3scaffidi SILVER
Hartland, Wisconsin
3scaffidi SILVER, Hartland, Wisconsin
9 articles 0 photos 0 comments
#7390 Poetry
By Brittaner DIAMOND
Edenton, North Carolina
Brittaner DIAMOND, Edenton, North Carolina
51 articles 0 photos 88 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;words are just songs without the corny elevator music behind them&quot; <br /> -Me (random thought)