I want to say to her: i just want to be myself. and i want to be with someone who's just himself. that's all. i want to see through all the performance and all the pretending and get right to the truth.

David Levithan
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In the written form, this quote is from a poem by a 16th century poet, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey. However, it is a modern day interpretation of a poem by another poet. The original poem goes as follows: "I have been a man and have done many things. And being so perfect am now going to die. And now my soul is even as it were a lute That with two strings sweetly willed may sound." In the modern-day interpretation of this poem, which was published in the book “In the Arms of Morpheus” by William Least Heat Moon , it is about being yourself and being with someone who is just himself.

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