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I feel helpless, hopeless, too low to call out, too weak to think. Impotent tears dribble down.

Elizabeth Smart

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Elizabeth Smart
Age: 37
Born: 1987
Born: November 3
Activist
Author
Harpist
Historian
Memoirist
Musician
Salt Lake City
Utah
Elizabeth Ann Gilmour
Elizabeth Ann Smart
Tears
Call
Feel
Dribble
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Impotent
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Helpless
Thinking
Hopeless
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Weak

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What you forget is that plants themselves want to live as much as you want them to. More.
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I must spin good ghosts out of my hope to oppose the hordes at my window. If those who look in see me condescend to barricade the door, they will know too much and crowd in to overcome me.
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Sleep tries to seduce me by promising a more reasonable tomorrow.
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But the human spirit is resilient. God made us so. He gave us the ability to forgive. To leave our past behind. To look forward instead of back.
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What is poetry? Do not enquire. The secret dies by prying. How does the heart beat? I fainted when I saw it on the screen, opening and closing like a flower ... Poetry is like this, it is life moving, terrible, vivid. Look the other way when you write, or you might faint.
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I have learned to smoke because I need something to hold onto.
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It's not what happens to us that defines us. It's what we choose to do with what happens to us that defines us.
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The long days seduce all thought away, and we lie like the lizards in the sun, postponing our lives indefinitely.
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Work is the only only only remedy for life: for happiness, for interest, for stability, for security. Hard, willed work. Oh work!
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