Everything the house keeps in one ledger: the poems William Waltrip wrote, and the poems by other people he wouldn’t stop quoting. They are filed together on purpose. Filter by a name to read one hand at a time, or leave it as it is and let him keep the company he chose.
01
Although the wind
blows terribly here,
the moonlight also leaks
between the roof planks
of this ruined house.
01
Although the wind Izumi Shikibu
Language English hope beauty impermanence solitude
02
Come guess me this riddle
What beats pipe and fiddle
What's hotter than mustard and
Milder than cream
What best wets your whistle
What's clearer than crystal
Sweeter than honey and stronger than steam[ read it all ]
02
The Humours of Whiskey Joseph Lunn — traditional Irish song ("Paddy's Panacea")
Language English drink revelry escape humour joy
03
The Price
Sometimes it catches when the fumes rise up
among the throbbing lights of cars, or as
you look away to dodge eye-contact with
your own reflection in the carriage-glass;
or in a waiting-room a face reminds you
that the colour supplements have lied
and some have pleasure and some pay the price.
Then all the small securities you built
about your house, your desk, your calendar
are blown like straws; and momentarily,
as if a scent of ivy or the earth
had opened up a childhood door, you pause,
to take the measure of what might have been
against the kind of life you settled for.
03
The Price S. Henson
Language English midlife regret longing self-knowledge memory
04
It is said that before entering the sea
a river trembles with fear.
She looks back at the path she has traveled,
from the peaks of the mountains,
the long winding road crossing forests and villages.
And in front of her,
she sees an ocean so vast,
that to enter
there seems nothing more than to disappear forever.
But there is no other way.
The river cannot go back.
Nobody can go back.
To go back is impossible in existence.
The river needs to take the risk
of entering the ocean
because only then will fear disappear,
because that’s where the river will know
it’s not about disappearing into the ocean,
but of becoming the ocean.
04
The river Kahlil Gibran
Language English fear courage impermanence faith purpose
05
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the shadow of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find me, unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
05
Invictus W.E. Henley
Language English courage fear dignity perseverance
06
Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew.
It’s the same when love comes to an end,
or the marriage fails and people say
they knew it was a mistake, that everybody
said it would never work. That she was
old enough to know better. But anything
worth doing is worth doing badly.
[ read it all ]
06
Failing and Flying J. Gilbert
Language English heartache failure love memory dignity
07
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion
07
Walden H.D. Thoreau
Language English purpose self-knowledge freedom nature urgency
08
Oh me! Oh life! of the questions of these recurring,
Of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities fill’d with the foolish,
Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and who more faithless?)
Of eyes that vainly crave the light, of the objects mean, of the struggle ever renew’d,
Of the poor results of all, of the plodding and sordid crowds I see around me,
Of the empty and useless years of the rest, with the rest me intertwined,
The question, O me! so sad, recurring—What good amid these, O me, O life?
[ read it all ]
08
O me! O life! Walt Whitman
Language English emptiness despair purpose identity hope
09
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying;
And this same flower that smiles today
Tomorrow will be dying.
The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,
The higher he’s a-getting,
The sooner will his race be run,
And nearer he’s to setting.
That age is best which is the first,
When youth and blood are warmer;
But being spent, the worse, and worst
Times still succeed the former.
Then be not coy, but use your time,
And while ye may, go marry;
For having lost but once your prime,
You may forever tarry.
09
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time R. Herrick
Language English urgency time delay mortality love
10
When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,
And look upon myself and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,
Desiring this man’s art and that man’s scope,[ read it all ]
10
Sonnet # 29 Shakespeare
Language English shame love doubt gratitude friendship
11
They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.
But they were fucked up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern[ read it all ]
11
This Be The Verse Philip Larkin
Language English family humour despair growing-up shame
12
The art of losing isn’t hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master.
[ read it all ]
12
One art Elizabeth Bishop
Language English loss grief heartache impermanence memory
13
The Pool Players.
Seven at the Golden Shovel.
We real cool. We
Left school. We
Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We
[ read it all ]
13
We Real Cool Gwendolyn Brooks
Language English folly mortality growing-up revelry
14
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field[ read it all ]
14
Dreams Langston Hughes
Language English hope perseverance ambition emptiness
15
When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,
And look upon myself and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,
Desiring this man’s art and that man’s scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least;[ read it all ]
15
Sonnet 29 Shakespeare
Language English shame love doubt gratitude friendship
16
“If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.”
16
Your reward Oscar Wilde
Language English identity lost searching art freedom
17
Never trust a white man,
Never kill a Jew,
Never sign a contract,
Never rent a pew.
Don't enlist in armies;
Nor marry many wives;
Never write for magazines;[ read it all ]
17
Advice to a son E. Hemingway
Language English humour folly mortality growing-up doubt
18
Why should I blame her that she filled my days
With misery, or that she would of late
Have taught to ignorant men most violent ways,
Or hurled the little streets upon the great,
Had they but courage equal to desire?
What could have made her peaceful with a mind
That nobleness made simple as a fire,
With beauty like a tightened bow, a kind[ read it all ]
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Troy W.B. Yeats
Language English longing heartache beauty forgiveness love
19
When you’re up against a trouble,
Meet it squarely, face to face;
Lift your chin and set your shoulders,
Plant your feet and take a brace.
When it’s vain to try to dodge it,
Do the best that you can do;
You may fail, but you may conquer,
See it through![ read it all ]
19
See it through E.A. Guest
Language English perseverance courage fear despair
20
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,[ read it all ]
20
The Road Not Taken Robert Frost
Language English paths regret searching identity time
21
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—[ read it all ]
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Harlem Langston Hughes
Language English delay longing ambition despair urgency
22
Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn’t know before you learned it.
22
Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn’t know before you learned it. Maya Angelou
Language English forgiveness regret shame self-knowledge
23
There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
23
There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future. St. Augustine
Language English forgiveness shame hope starting
24
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies—it is the first law of nature.
24
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies—it is the first law of nature. Voltaire
Language English forgiveness folly belonging
25
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
25
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. Lewis B. Smedes
Language English forgiveness freedom regret heartache
26
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
26
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. Buddha
Language English shame love dignity self-knowledge
27
No man can step into the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man.
27
No man can step into the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man. Heraclitus
Language English impermanence time identity loss
28
Regret is insight that comes a day too late.
28
Regret is insight that comes a day too late. Unknown
Language English regret self-knowledge time
29
My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.
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My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me. Steve Maraboli
Language English perseverance regret identity courage
30
We do not heal the past by dwelling there; we heal the past by living fully in the present.
30
We do not heal the past by dwelling there; we heal the past by living fully in the present. Marianne Williamson
Language English regret memory grief starting
31
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day.
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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Language English regret rest forgiveness starting
32
There is no such thing as a painless lesson. They just don’t exist. Sacrifices are necessary. You can’t gain something without losing something first. Although, if you can endure that pain and walk away from it, you’ll find that you now have a heart strong enough to withstand any storm.
32
There is no such thing as a painless lesson. They just don’t exist. Sacrifices are necessary. You can’t gain something without losing something first. Although, if you can endure that pain and walk away from it, you’ll find that you now have a heart strong enough to withstand any storm. Hiromu Arakawa
Language English loss perseverance grief courage
33
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
33
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. Henry Ford
Language English failure regret self-knowledge
34
The weight of regret drags us down only when we resist its lesson.
34
The weight of regret drags us down only when we resist its lesson. Unknown
Language English regret self-knowledge forgiveness
35
Sometimes you have to let go of the illusion that it could have been any different.
35
Sometimes you have to let go of the illusion that it could have been any different. Unknown
Language English regret grief forgiveness loss
36
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
36
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. Nelson Mandela
Language English failure perseverance courage dignity
37
If you think you are beaten, you are.
If you think you dare not, you don't.
If you like to win but think you can't,
It's almost a cinch you won't.
For out in the world we find
Success begins with a fellow's will.
It's all in the state of mind.
If you think you are outclassed, you are.[ read it all ]
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The Victor C.W. Longnecker
Language English doubt courage ambition perseverance
38
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
38
The man in the arena Theodore Roosevelt
Language English courage failure action doubt dignity
39
If you can keep your head when all about you,
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:[ read it all ]
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If Rudyard Kipling
Language English perseverance courage dignity growing-up doubt
40
Madam Life's a piece in bloom
Death goes dogging everywhere:
She's the tenant of the room,
He's the ruffian on the stair.
You shall see her as a friend,
You shall bilk him once or twice;
But he'll trap you in the end,[ read it all ]
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Madam Life's a piece in bloom W.E. Henley
Language English mortality revelry humour impermanence
41
It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.
I was a child and she was a child, [ read it all ]
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Annabel Lee Edgar Allan Poe
Language English grief love loss longing memory
42
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
[ read it all ]
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Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night Dylan Thomas
Language English mortality grief courage family urgency
43
Looking up at the stars, I know quite well
That, for all they care, I can go to hell,
But on earth indifference is the least
We have to dread from man or beast.
How should we like it were stars to burn
With a passion for us we could not return?
If equal affection cannot be,
Let the more loving one be me.
Admirer as I think I am
Of stars that do not give a damn,
I cannot, now I see them, say
I missed one terribly all day.
Were all stars to disappear or die,
I should learn to look at an empty sky
And feel its total dark sublime,
Though this might take me a little
43
More loving one W.H. Auden
Language English love longing solitude loss wonder
44
Gud som haver barnen kär,
se till mig som liten är.
Vart jag mig i världen vänder,
står min lycka i Guds händer.
Lyckan kommer, lyckan går,
du förbliver, Fader vår.
Till barnen som gud ej klär,[ read it all ]
44
Gud som haver barnen kär Unknown
Language Swedish faith dignity work hope impermanence
45
We look for love, no time for tears
Wasted water's all that is
And it don't make no flowers grow
Good things might come to those who wait
Not for those who wait too late
We gotta go for all we know
45
Wasted water B. Withers
Language English urgency delay love action
46
Pardonne mes lèvres. Elles trouvent la joie dans les endrois les plus inhabituels.
46
Mes lèvres Unknown
Language French bawdy lust mischief humour
47
All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,[ read it all ]
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The riddle of strider J.R.R. Tolkien
Language English lost hope identity perseverance searching
48
When I am an old woman I shall wear purple
With a red hat which doesn’t go, and doesn’t suit me.
And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves
And satin sandals, and say we’ve no money for butter.
I shall sit down on the pavement when I’m tired
And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells
And run my stick along the public railings
And make up for the sobriety of my youth.
I shall go out in my slippers in the rain
And pick flowers in other people’s gardens
And learn to spit.
You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat
And eat three pounds of sausages at a go
Or only bread and pickle for a week
And hoard pens and pencils and beermats and things in boxes.
But now we must have clothes that keep us dry
And pay our rent and not swear in the street
And set a good example for the children.
We must have friends to dinner and read the papers.
But maybe I ought to practise a little now?
So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised
When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple.
48
Warning Jenny Joseph
Language English freedom mischief humour growing-up delay
49
The doors of hell are locked from the inside.
49
Doors of hell C.S. Lewis
Language English despair self-knowledge faith
50
I hope you find someone who speaks your language, so you don’t spend the rest of your life translating your soul.
Unknown Author
50
I hope Unknown
Language English longing solitude love belonging
51
I knew that I was dying.
Something in me said,
Go ahead, die, sleep, become as them, accept.
Then something else in me said, no,
save the tiniest bit.
It needn't be much, just a spark.
A spark can set a whole forest on fire.
Just a spark.[ read it all ]
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A spark Charles Bukowski
Language English despair emptiness perseverance identity hope
52
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.
Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message 'He is Dead'.
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.
He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.
The stars are not wanted now; put out every one,
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun,
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood;
For nothing now can ever come to any good.
52
Funeral blues W.H. Auden
Language English grief loss love despair heartache
53
Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,
And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird[ read it all ]
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Hope is the thing with feathers Emily Dickinson
Language English hope despair perseverance faith
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Say not the struggle naught availeth,
The labour and the wounds are vain,
The enemy faints not, nor faileth,
And as things have been they remain.
If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars;
It may be, in yon smoke conceal'd,
Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers,[ read it all ]
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Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth Arthur Hugh Clough
Language English perseverance despair hope courage failure
55
Remember me when I am gone away,
Gone far away into the silent land;
When you can no more hold me by the hand,
Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.
Remember me when no more day by day
You tell me of our future that you planned:
Only remember me; you understand
It will be late to counsel then or pray.[ read it all ]
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Remember Christina Rossetti
Language English grief loss love memory forgiveness
56
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,[ read it all ]
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree W.B. Yeats
Language English escape rest nature longing home
57
I leant upon a coppice gate
When Frost was spectre-gray,
And Winter's dregs made desolate
The weakening eye of day.
The tangled bine-stems scored the sky
Like strings of broken lyres,
And all mankind that haunted nigh
Had sought their household fires.[ read it all ]
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The Darkling Thrush Thomas Hardy
Language English hope despair nature time wonder
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Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough,
And stands about the woodland ride
Wearing white for Eastertide.
Now, of my threescore years and ten,
Twenty will not come again,
And take from seventy springs a score,[ read it all ]
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Loveliest of trees, the cherry now A.E. Housman
Language English time mortality beauty urgency nature
59
Go placidly amid the noise and the haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible, without surrender,
be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
and listen to others,
even to the dull and the ignorant;[ read it all ]
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Desiderata Max Ehrmann
Language English rest contentment dignity faith doubt self-knowledge
60
No man is an island,
entire of itself;
every man is a piece of the continent,
a part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less,
as well as if a promontory were,
as well as if a manor of thy friend's[ read it all ]
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No Man Is an Island John Donne
Language English belonging solitude mortality grief dignity
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O world, I cannot hold thee close enough!
Thy winds, thy wide grey skies!
Thy mists, that roll and rise!
Thy woods, this autumn day, that ache and sag
And all but cry with colour! That gaunt crag
To crush! To lift the lean of that black bluff!
World, World, I cannot get thee close enough!
[ read it all ]
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God's World Edna St. Vincent Millay
Language English beauty wonder joy nature gratitude
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Under the wide and starry sky,
Dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.
This be the verse you grave for me:
Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor; home from sea,[ read it all ]
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Requiem Robert Louis Stevenson
Language English mortality rest contentment home grief
63
If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A body of England's, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.[ read it all ]
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The Soldier Rupert Brooke
Language English war mortality home belonging dignity
64
I am! yet what I am none cares or knows,
My friends forsake me like a memory lost;
I am the self-consumer of my woes,
They rise and vanish in oblivious host,
Like shades in love and death's oblivion lost;
And yet I am! and live with shadows tost
Into the nothingness of scorn and noise,[ read it all ]
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I Am John Clare
Language English identity solitude despair emptiness rest
65
Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy;
My sin was too much hope of thee, lov'd boy.
Seven years thou'wert lent to me, and I thee pay,
Exacted by thy fate, on the just day.
O, could I lose all father now! For why
Will man lament the state he should envy?
To have so soon 'scap'd world's and flesh's rage,
And, if no other misery, yet age?[ read it all ]
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On My First Son Ben Jonson
Language English grief family loss love mortality
66
After great pain, a formal feeling comes —
The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs —
The stiff Heart questions — was it He, that bore,
And Yesterday, or Centuries before?
The Feet, mechanical, go round —
A Wooden way
Of Ground, or Air, or Ought —[ read it all ]
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After great pain, a formal feeling comes Emily Dickinson
Language English grief despair emptiness memory rest
67
Über allen Gipfeln
Ist Ruh,
In allen Wipfeln
Spürest du
Kaum einen Hauch;
Die Vögelein schweigen im Walde.
Warte nur, balde
Ruhest du auch.
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Wandrers Nachtlied II (Ein Gleiches) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Language German rest nature mortality solitude contentment
68
Everyone suddenly burst out singing;
And I was filled with such delight
As prisoned birds must find in freedom,
Winging wildly across the white
Orchards and dark-green fields; on—on—and out of sight.
Everyone's voice was suddenly lifted;
And beauty came like the setting sun:[ read it all ]
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Everyone Sang Siegfried Sassoon
Language English joy hope beauty war wonder
69
Every day is a fresh beginning,
Every morn is the world made new.
You who are weary of sorrow and sinning,
Here is a beautiful hope for you,—
A hope for me and a hope for you.
All the past things are past and over;
The tasks are done and the tears are shed.[ read it all ]
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New Every Morning Susan Coolidge
Language English starting forgiveness hope regret rest
70
If we sit down at set of sun,
And count the things that we have done,
And counting, find
One self-denying act, one word
That eased the heart of him who heard,
One glance, most kind,
That fell like sunshine where it went—
Then we may count that day well spent.[ read it all ]
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At Set of Sun Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Language English dignity purpose work gratitude regret
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If you think you are beaten, you are;
If you think you dare not, you don't.
If you'd like to win, but you think you can't,
It is almost a cinch you won't.
If you think you'll lose, you've lost;
For out in this world we find
Success begins with a fellow's will[ read it all ]
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Thinking Walter D. Wintle
Language English courage doubt perseverance failure action
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A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
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Endymion (opening lines) John Keats
Language English beauty wonder hope art nature
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Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind.[ read it all ]
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Dulce et Decorum Est Wilfred Owen
Language English war mortality despair dignity courage
74
Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me,
Saying that now you are not as you were
When you had changed from the one who was all to me,
But as at first, when our day was fair.
Can it be you that I hear? Let me view you, then,
Standing as when I drew near to the town
Where you would wait for me: yes, as I knew you then,[ read it all ]
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The Voice Thomas Hardy
Language English grief longing memory loss love
75
Rome was not built in a day but it most likely started with someone clueless digging a big fucking hole
75
William Waltrip
Language English State starting action perseverance humour
76
i have anxiety over not having things I do not actually want
i’m so focused on making millions, several millions, even though I know there is no amount of any currency which can pay for the kind of moments that make me happy
those moments are made, not purchased now, they require some money
the currency is value
but it’s not paid for by money, the price is paid for by effort
it is the effort that makes them worth the while, gives the bang for the buck
and that effort is a resource of scarcity, which gets hallowed out chasing all these things which don’t make the happiness come around
i do not need millions of millions, simply a few thousands enough to get me on a plane, over a boarder, into a bar and through to that point inside which allows me to make some moments unpriceable in terms of any currency
76
Price William Waltrip
Language English Dated 5/8/26 State money purpose contentment work
77
I fear that the old man and the sea I might never get to be,
It’s like all of nature’s elements were made to break me,
I see us wasting porcelain spirit like we’re trying to fight the wind,
Unaware that life’s a force of nature: a fight we can’t win,
Sayings say calm seas never made no skilled sailors,
This misfit concludes that life will not be my tailor,
Might have me measured but I will be fitting into it,
By adjusting my sail, like Santiago who never quit,[ read it all ]
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Persevere William Waltrip
Language English Dated 30/6/26 State perseverance courage mortality fear
78
Drf du r din egen
Du försöker varje kväll
Men jag ser bara dig själv
78
Jag ser förbi spegeln William Waltrip
Language Swedish Dated 16/5/19 State self-knowledge identity doubt
79
Innan skiten kan vi alla kännas vid svindeln
79
Men innan vi gör det vill jag bara säga kolla på himlen William Waltrip
Language Swedish Dated 28/5/19 State revelry wonder escape
80
Och tv;n nu spelar mer kanaler än venedig
80
Kvällen har kommit så långt att toaletten är ledig William Waltrip
Language Swedish Dated 29/5/19 State drink revelry humour
81
Man är lika rädd för att inte få som man vill som för att få just det och lite till
Man vill sattsa man leker med tanken men ändå lämnar man pengarna på banken
Ens hjärta ömmar efter lilla kärleken men ändå ter man sig vuxet utanför leken
Man vill men så ändå vill man inte
Rädslor och känslor sliter itu ens sinne[ read it all ]
81
Skrev jag detta? William Waltrip
Language Swedish Dated 31/7/19 State doubt regret fear longing self-knowledge
82
Du får mig att önska att jag missat sista bussen
Att klockan är för sent inga fler tunnelbaner från slussen
Jag vill säga det är sent ja kanske borde ta en taxi
Och höra dig svara varför ska du betala för den
Du får mig att önska att klockan slagit för sent
Därför det känns som att vi båda vet
Vad som skulle ske om någon bara våga
Sätta ord på kvällens brännade fråga[ read it all ]
82
Du får mig att önska William Waltrip
Language Swedish Dated 5/1/20 State longing lust love hope
83
Jag brukade vara rädd för mörkret när jag var liten. Mitt rum brukade bli bäcksvart, som en ögonbindel på slutna ögon. Den känslan av att inte kunna se något, fick mig alltid att tro att det var något som gömde sig i mörkret. Grenarna från trädet utanför mitt fönster brukade slå mot rutan när det blåste upp, och det lät som klor mot golvet. Jag var övertygad om att det fanns ett monster under min säng, och det brukade ta all min styrka för att våga kolla. Det var inte förens många år senare, när en lampa tändes, som jag förstod att det verkligen fanns ett monster. Det hade funnits där hela tiden, oavsett vad pappa sa. Det hade blivit verkligare och verkligare med tiden. Det fanns inte bara i mörkret heller, det gick mitt i dagsljuset. Det skrämmer mig mer än någonting. Det jag fann var att monstret jag var rädd för aldrig levt under min säng; det levde i den. Jag önskar nästan att det funnits ett monster under sängen, för det hade jag kunnat jag fly från. Det monstret ovanför måste jag leva med. Det kommer följa med mig. Jag är rädd att det kommer växa upp och tappa bort sig själv, bli något jag nu i stunden inte vet vad det är. Ta en fel sväng någonstans och komma in på fel spår och så långt bort från rätt väg att det aldrig tar sig tillbaka utan nöjer sig med platsen den befinner sig på. Jag är rädd att det ska gå vilse i livet och inte hitta tillbaka. Jag är rädd att det ska vakna en dag, tända lampan och ha tappat bort sig själv. Jag är rädd att det ska tappa den röda tråden - till sitt eget liv. Jag är inte längre rädd för mörkret. Jag är inte längre rädd för att kolla under sängen. Det enda som skrämmer mig nu är att tända lampan en dag och kolla mig i spegeln och behöva se vad som finns där.
83
Monstret i mörkret William Waltrip
Language Swedish Dated 18/1/20 State fear self-knowledge lost identity doubt
84
Hej pappa kära mamma lillebror o deti ch fina syster
Hoppas hem utan mig inte är allt för dystert
Förlåt att ja inte hört av mig på ett tag
Tanken av hem gör mig glad men samtidigt svag
Det har varit mycket allt har gått snabbt
Dessa dagar är de livligaste jag haft
Så många intryck känner mig knappt som jag[ read it all ]
84
Ett brev William Waltrip
Language Swedish Dated 18/1/20 State home family longing searching
85
You’ll fall in love for the night and get you heart broken in the morning.
85
The backpackers romance William Waltrip
Language English Dated 2/2/20 State heartache love impermanence
86
Din blick glider förbi mig
Men jag vill att du ska se mig
Min ord når dig
Men jag vill att du ska höra mig
86
Din blick William Waltrip
Language Swedish Dated 11/3/20 State longing heartache doubt
87
Hade aldrig trott på det
Om det inte var för alla dessa ärren
Att man ska kunna älska någon som inte är bra för en
Tills man nästan tappat känseln
Vara helt tagen men inte kunna släppa taget
Ser hennes lågor dansa, klart man blir förtrollad
Men man kan inte dansa med henne utan att bli skållad[ read it all ]
87
Öppen eld William Waltrip
Language Swedish Dated 28/3/20 State heartache love longing folly lust
88
Det har gått veckor sedan vi såg honom sist
Det är mirakel att vi inte än förståndet mist
Kanske drf att hoppet är det som lämnar en sist
Oavsett är tiden utan hnm trist
Drf vi hoppas att vår kapten snart kommer tillbaka
Utan honom står vi utan riktning med ryggrader slaka, skäggig haka,
Eller krille är skäggig, Theo är bara gnällig[ read it all ]
88
Kom hem William Waltrip
Language Swedish Dated 30/3/20 State friendship longing hope humour
89
När jag är full besöker jag din instagram
När jag är nykter tänker jag ditt namn
Jag är är berusad saknar jag din hud mot min
När jag är nykter säger jag till de tankarna försvinn
När jag är borta behöver jag dig
När jag är nykter behöver jag dig ännu mer
Men båda fulla och nyktra mig vet att hopplösa tankar ingenting get[ read it all ]
89
När William Waltrip
Language Swedish Dated 19/4/20 State longing drink heartache regret
90
Jag har ont i varje kroppdel, muskel, bit och cell
Jag går till min doktor därför jag behöver få hjälp
Jag förklarar all smärta, alla sätten jag lider
Han lyssnar och antecknar i sina remisser där han skriver
Till slut kollar han på mig o säger “du, ja kan inte fixa det här”
Vi vet inte hur man botar smärtan från att ha varit kär
90
Ont William Waltrip
Language Swedish Dated 21/6/20 State heartache loss humour
91
Det spelar ingen roll om det är the love of your life eller om det är någon som knappt kan stava ditt namn.
Det spelar ingen roll ifall hon checkar alla dina boxar eller om han inte ens är din typ.
Det spelar ingen roll om ni passar som handen i handsken eller om ni skär er som olja och vatten.
Det spelar ingen roll.
Därför gör det ont, så gör det ont; oavsett om det är the love of your life eller någon som knappt kan stava ditt namn.
91
Det spelar ingen roll - NMT Kinch William Waltrip
Language Swedish Dated 24/9/20 State heartache loss grief
92
En vacker flicka i sommarklänning som ler mot dig för att hon är din, är värt mer än man förstår.
92
Det finns viktigare saker William Waltrip
Language Swedish Dated 15/10/23 State love gratitude beauty joy
93
Hon lämnade det här hålet i mig som jag inte kunnat fylla med någon annan.
93
Hål William Waltrip
Language Swedish Dated 31/10/23 State loss emptiness heartache longing
94
To all of our sons, may they have rich fathers and beautiful mothers.
94
Fathers William Waltrip
Language English Dated 11/11/23 State humour family mischief
95
Det är inte rättvisst att jag börjar glömma de små sakerna du älskade när smärtan av att ha älskat dig förblir.
Det är inte rättvist att jag hör ekot av ditt skratt men inte minns färgen på dina läppar.
Det är inte rättvist att du ställde dig upp, vände dig om och gick din väg medans jag fortfarande är fast här.
95
Inte rättvist William Waltrip
Language Swedish Dated 1/12/23 State heartache loss memory grief
96
A pretty girl smiled at me today.
What a life.
Varannan vatten,
Så blir du kungen av natten,
Eller gasa genom skiten och
Tvätta såren med spriten.
96
What a life William Waltrip
Language Swedish Dated 13/12/23 State drink revelry joy escape
97
Att läsa är något som jag har gjort hela livet
Med en mamma som min var det alltid givet
Bra böcker formar en och lämnar sina spår
Med lärdomar som kan bestå i år efter år
Med en aptit som min blir det svårt att veta
I vilka böcker man ens ska börja att leta
Efter svar till den hunger jag fått av min uppväxt,[ read it all ]
97
Mitt bibliotek William Waltrip
Language Swedish Dated 16/12/23 State family gratitude mortality love
98
Det är viktigt att komma ihåg att svackor som känns som att de aldrig kommer ta slut, en dag känns som att de aldrig hänt.
98
Svaga minnen William Waltrip
Language Swedish Dated 19/12/23 State hope perseverance impermanence
99
Smek mina fula ärr med kärlek, de har gjort mig till den vackra pojken jag är idag.
99
Läs dina ärr högt för mig William Waltrip
Language Swedish Dated 5/1/24 State dignity self-knowledge love beauty
100
100
Jag vill William Waltrip
Language Swedish Dated 27/5/24 State longing searching
101
2/11/2024
Jag tror att jag växer upp;
Jag hatar inte längre min far, jag tycker synd om honom
Saker som skrämde mig som liten,
Rösten, den orubbliga facaden, kylan
[ read it all ]
101
Där inne William Waltrip
Language Swedish Dated 2/11/24 State family growing-up forgiveness love
102
Jag dricker inte av samma anledning som jag gjorde när jag var liten.
102
Som liten William Waltrip
Language Swedish Dated 15/11/24 State drink self-knowledge growing-up escape
103
Lev så att låttitlar ger mening.
103
Låttitlar William Waltrip
Language Swedish Dated 20/11/24 State purpose action freedom
104
Min hållning förvriden
Sliten med tiden
Ärrad hud i ren siden
Saknar mig själv som liten
Mer lättsam lycka på den tiden
Äcklades av skiten kväljningar av spriten
Nu tar jag skiten utan respekt för mig själv som liten[ read it all ]
104
Med tiden William Waltrip
Language Swedish Dated 22/11/24 State drink growing-up memory shame self-knowledge
105
"Se mamma vad jag gjort"
Jag minns inte vem som lärde mig att gå
Det var min far som visade mig hur man vet om det är punktering i slangen av ett cykelhjul
Min mor var den som förklarade för mig att vitlök smakar bittert i maten om man bränner den
Jag har sedan länge förstått principen i hur man lägger ett pussel, eller efter svordomar samt en saknad mutter möblerar en IKEA säng[ read it all ]
105
Se mamma vad jag gjort William Waltrip
Language Swedish Dated 5/12/24 State family growing-up gratitude dignity
106
En kväll i København är allt det tar för att få mig att tro eller neka att det någonsin har funnits en gud; vem hade någonsin kunnat skapa sådant kaos?
106
København William Waltrip
Language Swedish Dated 14/12/24 State revelry drink folly humour
107
Vet inte ens att jag har en tills den skriker
Springer fram ge mig penna papper ja jag skriker
Har något att säga vet inte om det är viktigt
Men när jag mår så här känns det riktigt
Låt mig sätta mig ner innan,
jag tappar det från hjärnhinnan,
jag tappar det snart finns det ingen som vet det jag vill[ read it all ]
107
Ryggraden William Waltrip
Language Swedish Dated 14/12/24 State art work humour
108
108
Question William Waltrip
Language English Dated 15/12/24 State doubt searching
109
109
En ny typ av ont William Waltrip
Language Swedish Dated 21/12/24 State heartache despair
110
Men sen, en dag, snubblade jag och föll ur mig själv. När jag vände mig om hakade andan upp sig för resultatet var inte alls likt skissen. Att försöka kliva tillbaka var som trycka in en hörnbit mitt i pusslet. Fast utanför tvingen att beskåda det du inte såg inifrån. Som som fritt fall när bygeln låst sig. Det spelar inte någon roll om du vill. Du ska åka. Jag föddes med tanken att man en dag ska ha barn. I samma veva antog jag att jag älskar mig själv. Men här står jag med ett jag som jag inte tycker om. Vems fel är det?
110
Snubbla inte William Waltrip
Language Swedish Dated 1/1/25 State self-knowledge shame doubt failure
111
Pojkar som fortfarande inte kan knyta sina skor
Champagnekorkar som flyger
Räknar alla andra mot dom jag kallar mina
111
Ett till år William Waltrip
Language Swedish Dated 1/1/25 State revelry friendship growing-up time
112
Mamma är du vaken
De var inget, jag vill bara veta
112
Mamma är du vaken William Waltrip
Language Swedish Dated 1/1/25 State family home fear
113
17/1/25
W.W.
Oh in this world, to make a child,
And then to have a child like me.
As if the gamble lacked of wild
Am I as bad as your luck can be?
[ read it all ]
113
And then some William Waltrip
Language English Dated 17/1/25 State mortality family courage growing-up
114
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Kill me William Waltrip
Language English Dated 18/1/25 State despair oblivion
115
If you can forgive yourself
And love the mirror
Climb off the highest shelf
And realise the error
In that good people may do bad things.
115
Forgive yourself William Waltrip
Language English Dated 25/1/25 State forgiveness self-knowledge shame hope
116
Knulla knulla knulla skrek mitt kön dagen jag föddes
Hennes oskuld såg till att hennes kön föddes
116
Farit William Waltrip
Language Swedish Dated 25/1/25 State bawdy lust humour mischief
117
Här vi sitter vi
Du som kommer skapa min fylleångest och jag som kommer låta dig
Sex minuter ungefär på toaletten när ingen reflekterar över vart man är, vilket betyder fyra minuter att tänka över stunden
Imorn kommer jag kvida varför vilket skär sig till kvällens varför inte. Det rycker lite här och vart. Ursäkten jag är ung dämpar fortfarande ångesten
[ read it all ]
117
Här sitter vi William Waltrip
Language Swedish Dated 26/1/25 State drink revelry shame doubt
118
Ingen idé att bli arg, kortleken ä delad.
Spela med det du fick.
Älska den du har.
Lär dig älska allt med den du har.
[ read it all ]
118
Ingen idé William Waltrip
Language Swedish Dated 1/2/25 State contentment forgiveness perseverance self-knowledge
119
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Desideratum William Waltrip
Language English Dated 1/2/25 State longing searching
120
‘Jag bryr mig inte’
Supwrman
Batman
Spiderman
[ read it all ]
120
Den sista superkraften William Waltrip
Language Swedish Dated 12/2/25 State humour freedom mischief courage
121
Du med kniven mot strupen, tänk på stunden runt hörnet.
Du vet inte vad som finns runt hörnet.
121
Kniven mot strupen William Waltrip
Language Swedish Dated 14/2/25 State hope despair perseverance courage
122
Jag tror pojkar drar flickor i håret för ingen lär dem säga hej.
122
Pojkar William Waltrip
Language Swedish Dated 20/2/25 State growing-up humour love
123
N’Odysseus nor man won’t come undone,
With pale lips refusing to smile,
From missing the air of someone,
Whom you have not seen for a while.
Her company keeping salt on your skin,
Her warmth giving blush on your
freckled face,[ read it all ]
123
A Southern Affair William Waltrip
Language English Dated 4/3/25 State love longing beauty memory
124
I was never scared of cliff-jumping
Never cared to check the depth
Petrified of honesty dumping
Due to them secrets that I kept
Never did I fear the surface
Reflections dancing in that light
But behind the smile on my face[ read it all ]
124
Checking the depth William Waltrip
Language English Dated 13/3/25 State fear shame doubt self-knowledge
125
Do not race for red lights
Do not run from bar fights
Do not stay out all night
Don’t miss-out on the out-nights
Do not waste a moment
To get wasted for a moment
Cause missed waste will be torment [ read it all ]
125
Red lights William Waltrip
Language English Dated 13/3/25 State drink revelry mischief freedom
126
Not to say i did not enjoy my trip
But i get lost without my travelguide philipp
And sometimes i get this feeling you know
That I can not be happy without bruno
Big daddy around means no worry
No night out without dancing with bernie
Nor will I enjoy any form of vino
Served without the company of our tino[ read it all ]
126
In a hurry - NMT Kinch William Waltrip
Language English Dated 22/3/25 State friendship longing belonging humour
127
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Sand i sängen - NMT Kinch William Waltrip
Language Swedish Dated 22/3/25 State memory longing love
128
If you could only die for a moment to be able to catch your breath to be able to come back to enjoy life
128
Only for a moment - NMT Kinch William Waltrip
Language English Dated 22/3/25 State escape rest mortality hope
129
Hej min älskade jag vet att du är arg
Över hundvalpen som ville leka varg
Men när man känner att man måste vara “han”
Så måste pengarna bara fram
Jag vet att vi skulle leva långa loppet ut
Men ibland ska snobbarna få veta hut
Blippa ditt kort tills terminalen säger nej[ read it all ]
129
När pengarna tar slut - NMT Kinch William Waltrip
Language Swedish Dated 30/3/25 State revelry folly money lust freedom
130
Take me where the signal fails
Where my phone cuts out
Roads less traveled with no trails
Where wolfs they howl an’ boys can shout
Give me straight roads with road-kill
Piss breaks with marvellous views
Where I retrieve my own will[ read it all ]
130
Take me There - N.M.T. Kinch William Waltrip
Language English Dated 4/4/25 State escape friendship nature rest self-knowledge
131
Jag gillar inte AC, föredrar att rulla ner rutan
Klippte mig fult igår, men av den trevligaste Persiska frisörskan som bjöd på gratis lemonad.
131
Ingen AC William Waltrip
Language Swedish Dated 10/4/25 State contentment humour gratitude
132
På på ett café o känner mig lite sne
Arbetslös och oälskad
Icke anställningsbar samt oälskbar
Vill inte rimma på bar men vilka rim finns kvar när man är någotlös o osakbar
Sitter på en bar o undrar vad jag har,
när varken kärlek eller arbete är ngt som finns i mitt badkar
menar plånbok vilken tok [ read it all ]
132
Någotlös William Waltrip
Language Swedish Dated 19/4/25 State emptiness failure solitude shame humour
133
There’s a basement without lights in everyman, no matter how pretty the facade.
133
Basement William Waltrip
Language English Dated 23/4/25 State self-knowledge shame identity
134
Det är svårt att rimma på regn.
Du får inte sätta tonen, de tre sista bokstäverna eller ens när det sker.
Och så får man inte börja på “och”. Det sa dem i alla fall.
Men när det regnar är det inte du som bestämmer.
[ read it all ]
134
Lite som William Waltrip
Language Swedish Dated 26/4/25 State despair perseverance hope courage grief
135
Det finns tjejer som klär sig kyskt
Och tjejer jag kysst som ber mig ring inte
Det finns tjejer som pratar ganska tyst,
O dem som pratade till mig men jag visste inte
Det finns dem som lämnat där jag brister,
Men inte ännu velat lämna mitt minne[ read it all ]
135
G-string William Waltrip
Language Swedish Dated 26/4/25 State longing memory regret heartache
136
Sluta flörta med servitriser
Dem älskar dig inte
Sluta leta efter beviser
På att personalen älskar dig inte
136
Gör inte första gången William Waltrip
Language Swedish Dated 26/4/25 State self-knowledge shame solitude humour
137
Forgot my perfume so I ended up smelling like me
That’s the day she realised she wanted me
137
Parfume William Waltrip
Language English Dated 1/5/25 State love identity self-knowledge
138
Then I realised that is the essence of mankind. What it means to be man. To be woman. To be human. In that little fucked up moment. You take a lukewarm vodka shot and it goes almost all the way down, to then return back into your mouth. Having been sent back up, by your own body realising hey matey that’s poison. And yet we swallow.
138
The essence William Waltrip
Language English Dated 2/5/25 State drink folly humour revelry
139
Thought on the word impulse
Comes from pulse no?
The thing of the heart meaning we are surviving and alive
Almost sound like in
[ read it all ]
139
Have you ever William Waltrip
Language English Dated 2/5/25 State doubt self-knowledge folly identity
140
Have you ever thought on philosophy
What’s up with that
Philosophers develop philosophies that moves millions. Who gave them permission
What authority, educative fundament or validated mandate do they have to construct these things
[ read it all ]
140
Fuck Marcus Aurelius William Waltrip
Language Swedish Dated 6/5/25 State doubt ambition courage self-knowledge
141
I found it where i last saw it but not her
That’s cheating
141
Where did you last see it? William Waltrip
Language English Dated 8/5/25 State loss heartache longing
142
Don’t brake for braking cars.
Stay in your lane.
87% of dual mobile vehicle collisions last year happened due to impact because of reducing speed, aligning with other vehicles trajectories.
142
Break them William Waltrip
Language English Dated 8/5/25 State action courage folly humour
143
He’d call my dad and share the sorrows of life and mom
I’d come home and he’d be blasting Stones and asking me to jam along
We’d sit at the piano, talking to one another jam with eachother
And then he stopped drinking
143
The he quit William Waltrip
Language English Dated 11/6/25 State loss memory drink grief friendship
144
Med det sagt kom närmare,
Mina läppar når inte så långt bort
Jag vill ju inget hellre,
Än att göra avståndet mellan våra munnar ett minne blått
144
Centimeter i mellan William Waltrip
Language Swedish Dated 8/7/25 State longing love lust
145
He lost his mind
What did he lose
That thing
Is the most cherished one
145
The most cherished thing William Waltrip
Language English Dated 19/7/25 State loss identity fear
146
“MED DIG VAR JAG MER MIG SJÄLV ÄN VAD JAG ÄR MED MIG SJÄLV”
Med dig var jag opolerad
aldrig generad
inte dresserad
[ read it all ]
146
Si och Så eller Si och Si William Waltrip
Language Swedish Dated 19/7/25 State gratitude love memory belonging longing
147
Its like asking the lark at break of day not to sing
Its like fitting a square into the shape of a ring
Its astronauts which exist without needing any space
Its like making a royal flush without turning the ace
Its like watching dead poets society without spilling tears
Its like drinking a Guinness without saying cheers[ read it all ]
147
Square in a ring William Waltrip
Language English Dated 7/8/25 State love longing heartache beauty
148
Sen jag var liten har jag aldrig besökt några zoon
Min mamma hatade det något som klämde i den skon
Vackra djur hör ej hemma i bur, det är inte naturligt
Var mindre då, men tyckte det var finurligt
Om man hittar något vackert som man vill ha
Verkade att stoppa det i en bur som något bra[ read it all ]
148
Djur i bur William Waltrip
Language Swedish Dated 9/8/25 State love freedom longing beauty home
149
Jag njuter av tystnaden som ibland infinner sig i telefonen.
Då ingenting sägs, och jag biter mig i tungan från att säga något bara för att säga något
Tystnaden i samtalet som fortfarande pågår räcker.
I avsaknaden av annat gläds jag åt tanken att i den stunden oavsett vart hon är, så fokuserar hon på mig.
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Tystaden William Waltrip
Language Swedish Dated 10/8/25 State love contentment longing rest
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känns som ditt namn dyker upp på fel plats. Jag vill att det ska dyka upp i min telefon, inte mitt huvud, men får inte som jag vill
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Fel plats William Waltrip
Language Swedish Dated 10/8/25 State longing heartache love
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we are different, her and me
she’s like her, and I’m like me
and that’s good luck you see
we wouldn’t be, if she was me
she’s what I’d like to be, you see
what a life, lucky me
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Who nose William Waltrip
Language English Dated 11/8/25 State love gratitude joy
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Jag lägger ofantliga mängder energi på mina försök att inte vara mig själv. Man hade kunnat försörja hela städer med den energin.
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Städer William Waltrip
Language Swedish Dated 11/8/25 State identity self-knowledge shame doubt
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Nu säger jag bara “Hej Alice” så ler du, o sätter dig i hörnet.
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Hej Alice William Waltrip
Language Swedish Dated 12/8/25 State love joy belonging
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“Every time we talk I feel like it’s going to rain”, you said
When you say shit like that it puts a spin on my head
You can’t just call someone a cloud, even if it’s true
Who besides Shakespeare talks that way seriously; fuck you
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Summer rain William Waltrip
Language English Dated 13/8/25 State love longing hope beauty
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Om man behövt ta körkort för sig själv hade jag cyklat till dig.
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Har ingen bil William Waltrip
Language Swedish Dated 15/8/25 State love longing humour
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At the end of drinking lies sadness
On the 3rd of June I learnt bad chess
The tip of pints poises problematics
I down em all for proper antics
Not a gambler just a fein for feeling of play
Manage fuckups like they’re survey[ read it all ]
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Back rank H8 William Waltrip
Language English Dated 15/8/25 State drink despair folly humour
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I want to share a sandwich with you, not in half, but bite by bite (licking the crumbs off the side of your mouth)
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Sandwiches William Waltrip
Language English Dated 3/9/25 State love appetite lust joy
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Mina ögon William Waltrip
Language Swedish Dated 11/9/25 State identity self-knowledge
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Hoppas det lämnar rynkor, alla ska veta.
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Jeg ler år att du ler William Waltrip
Language Swedish Dated 12/9/25 State joy love gratitude
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Och vinsten man inte skattar på.
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Äktenskapliga bokslut William Waltrip
Language Swedish Dated 24/9/25 State love humour contentment money
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Jag är trött på att vara dum i huvudet,
Att aldrig hålla ihop det du vet
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I hela huvudet William Waltrip
Language Swedish Dated 1/10/25 State shame doubt failure despair
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i realised the effect of raising something to the power of two
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Raised to the power of 2 William Waltrip
Language English Dated 2/10/25 State wonder self-knowledge
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Her and me are not the same
Differ greatly and who’s to blame
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Her and me William Waltrip
Language English Dated 2/10/25 State heartache doubt love
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Love me like a dog William Waltrip
Language English Dated 8/10/25 State love longing belonging
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Will have to do William Waltrip
Language English Dated 9/10/25 State regret contentment
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I bet ya Ernest did not have acid reflux. I’m sure he did, but not did it bring him bother. Find me an Ernest composition waving in the reflux and I’ll show you Nirvana.
Who needs knees anyways. Always getting in the way. Bending down is for those who bow: stand proud.
I remembered when I showed her the scar behind my shoulder. Completely fucked, I informed her. Then I fucked the shit out of her on my back.
Never been one to ponder death. Those thoughts do not come easily when out of breath. Besides, it’s when the fat lady sings and I saw my testicals in feb.
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The utmost betrayal William Waltrip
Language Swedish Dated 17/10/25 State mortality fear bawdy humour dignity
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It’s a dangerous thing?
Popping out for one beer.
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That’s how they get ya William Waltrip
Language English Dated 17/10/25 State drink humour folly revelry
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Sir can you drive faster
Because I can’t contain myself
My woman’s in the kitchen
And she’s touching herself
The door’s left slightly open, just for me
So im sure you understand the hurry
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Drive faster William Waltrip
Language English Dated 5/12/25 State lust bawdy urgency humour
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22/1/26
W.W.
I believe I grew up today.
Today is a Thursday.
Today my therapist broke up with me, I think.
Today my therapist told me he was a waste of my money, and that I should spend it on a writing course instead.
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Today is a Thursday William Waltrip
Language English Dated 31/1/26 State self-knowledge growing-up fear hope courage
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Det regnar inte. Det är mina tårar jag ser på glasen av mina glasögon.
Jag vill inte dö, ändå total panikångest av att jag ska livet av mig. Paniken kom inte från att dö, men från att jag skulle ta det från mig själv. En rädsla av att inte vara i kontroll över mig själv, rädd att bli lämnad ensam snälla lämna mig inte ensam med mig själv.
Andas.
Bara tankar, jag är inte mina tankar.
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DET REGNAR INTE William Waltrip
Language Swedish Dated 14/2/26 State despair fear solitude perseverance
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I get sad when I drink
I don’t get better I think
I drink to get up
Never seems to be enough
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When William Waltrip
Language English Dated 20/3/26 State drink despair oblivion emptiness
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Round table, eight boys, or men, maybe.
Big cheers.
I wonder how many demons sit around this table. I know all seven faces, seen them age, few scars across these individuals I am not aware of, tended to some of them, one or two I might have inflicted myself.
I wonder who thinks about killing himself, fucking his sister, sleeping with guys, who laughs when crying inside, who shaves with electronic machine only because razors scare hime, razorblades, how many of us here have mentally jumped on an edge, wanted to hit our girlfriends.
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How many William Waltrip
Language Swedish Dated 20/3/26 State friendship shame despair solitude drink
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Bike
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No man left behind William Waltrip
Language English Dated 28/3/26 State friendship belonging
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Ensam
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Delad glädje dubbel William Waltrip
Language Swedish Dated 23/5/26 State solitude emptiness longing
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Jackan i hallen skorna i taket
Vi ska hålla kvarteret vaket
Jackan i hallen skorna i taket
Vi ska riva hela haket
Jackan i hallen skorna i taket
Vi river kläder tills vi når naket
Hupp hupp
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Jackan i hallen William Waltrip
Language Swedish drinking-hymn revelry drink friendship folly
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Drink It Down To There Picture This
Language English drinking-hymn revelry drink friendship
Nothing under that name.