Lord, may the pain be ours, And the weakness that it brings, But at least give us the strength, Of not showing it to anyone!
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Fernando Pessoa
The inmost spirit of poetry, in other words, is at bottom, in every recorded case, the voice of pain — and the physical body, so to speak, of poetry, is the treatment by which the poet tries to reconcile that pain with the world.
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Ted Hughes
Eric has said that I carry close to my chest a ball of barbed wire that I sometimes throw at other people.
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Weike Wang
Relationships are messy and painful, and hard to maintain. It takes time build, but only seconds to destroy.
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Alexis Tiger
