{"quotes":[{"text":"My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly.","author":"Raoul Dufy","tags":["eyes","ugly","erase "],"id":37245,"author_id":"Raoul+Dufy"},{"text":"A poetess is not as selfishas you assume.After months of agonising over her marriage of words—the bride—and spaces—the groom,she knows that as soonas she has penned the poem,it’s yours to consume.So, without giving it a think,she blows on the inkand the letters fly awaylike dandelions on a windy day,landing on hands and lips, on hearts and hips.But more often than not,you can easily spotthem trodden and forgotten,becoming sodden and rotten.Yet, she will continue to makewhat’s others to takebecause selfishness is not the mark of a poetess.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["agonise","agonising","assume","bride","cadence","consume","creative-writing","creativity","dandelion","erase","fly","forgotten","groom","hands","heart","hips","ink","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","letter","letters","lips","mark","marriage","months","novelist","page","paper","pen","pencil","penned","poems-on-writing","poet","poetess","poetry","quote","on-writing","rhyme","rotten","selfish","selfishness","silences","sodden","spaces","think","trodden","windy","word","words","write","writer","writing","written","wrote"],"id":52245,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"Trying to erase, hide, discredit, degrade, and suppress a writer's work, merit, voice, and influence―is unconstitutional. Censorship only exists to protect corruption.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["america","bill-of-rights","censor","censorship","civil-liberties","civil-rights","corrupt","corruption","degrade","discredit","erase","freedom-of-speech","hide","influence","insult","merit","suppress","suppression","unconstitutional","voice","writer"],"id":55344,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"We want to 'write in' our plan and 'write out' the consequence. When we do that, we're headed 'right back' to what we foolishly thought we could 'write out.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["avoid","avoidance","choices","consequence","consequences","eliminate","erase","fool","foolish","foolishly","plan","planning","script","strategist","strategy"],"id":57031,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Truth is the preferred weapon of God, and censorship is the most abused tool of the Devil.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["awareness","biase","censor","censored-book","censorship","control-information","devil","discredit","disinformation","dissent","erase","god","government","hide","information","knowledge","lie","manipulate-information","misinformation","politics","protect","regulate","suppress","suppression","tool","truth","truthfulness","weapon"],"id":72026,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"They took one look at me,And hated my black face.They took one look at me,And decided on my fate.They took one look at me,And forced an unknown fear.They took one look at me,And caused the shed of tears.They took one look at me,And decided I was wrong.They took one look at me,And now I'm singing the slave mans song...","author":"N'Zuri Za Austin","tags":["acknowledge","all-lives-matter","black-lives-matter","bleed","bleeding","blood","conflict","erase","faith","harmony","hope","human","humanity","humanness","injustice","inspiration","invalidate","justice","peace","phrase","poem","pray-for-everyone","pray-for-the-world","quote","rain","raining","silence","silenced","stronger-together","today","together","togetherness","union","unity","voice","words","write"],"id":73171,"author_id":"N%27Zuri+Za+Austin"},{"text":"Each day hands me a clean sheet of paper upon which to write. Therefore, I would be wise to write without ever having the need to erase.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["acumen","hip","careless","carelessness","caution","discernment","erase","error","errors","insight","life-story","map","mistakes","paper","plan","planning","story","wisdom","write","writing"],"id":117825,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"A silent velvet footstep filled me, unwelcome yet so needed. You finally found my hidden shore with grains of time and ocean of the most secret secrets, violet and red; left a trail of deep blue footsteps on my glowing beach of soul, and no matter how many times tides wash the golden sand anew, your prints can never be erased. Each one a shining star in my quiet Universe...","author":"Oksana Rus","tags":["art","artist","beach","blue","deep-blue","erase","escape","face","finally","footstep","found","galaxy","glow","glowing","god","golden","grain","groove","healing","hidden","hide","lagoon","left","message","mystery","need","ocean","oksana-rus","path","poem","print","red","road","sea","secret","shining","shore","silence","silent","sky","soul","spirit","spiritual","spirituality","star","stars","story","time","trail","universe","velvet","violet","walk","welcome"],"id":142759,"author_id":"Oksana+Rus"},{"text":"These were people who hunted for a way to erase the haunted, malnourished gaze from their souls and replace it with their faith in freedom and safety.","author":"J.D. Stroube","tags":["caged","erase","faith","free","free-will","freedom","gaze","haunted","hunted","malnourished","people","quote","safe","soul","spirit","stroube"],"id":271240,"author_id":"J.D.+Stroube"},{"text":"When a powerful storm collides with a much more powerful storm, it will understand that his power was just a dust before the wind! You can be a giant only until a bigger giant comes and erases your existence!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["dust","erase","giant","murat-ildan","power","power","powerful","storm","storm","storm","turkish-literature","turkish-wisdom-words","wind"],"id":374102,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":16,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}