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JLR Senior Member
since 2001-02-04
Posts 1785 |
I enjoy the signatures on here almost as much as I enjoy the poetry. I would really like to know the story behind any who would care to share. Sure hope I posted this in the right forum. |
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Acies
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Member Rara Avis
since 2000-06-07
Posts 7665Twilight Zone |
Did you want to know where i got my signature? It's last two lines of one of Shakespeare's sonnets. I forgot which one, but the one that starts as "Shall I compare thee to a summer's night" "So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this give life to thee." W.S. |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
I just somehow thought mine was appropriate for ME!  " Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." T.S. Eliot |
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PhaerieChild Senior Member
since 1999-08-30
Posts 1787Aloha, Oregon |
I got mine from a song by Shivaree called "Goodnite Moon" about a person who is afraid of the dark. That's me!! How can you save me? When the dark comes right in and takes me, from my front walk and into bed, where it kisses my face and eats my head. Shivaree |
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Swamp¤Faeryie Member
since 2000-12-04
Posts 393fairyland....of course;) |
Ha!! I've changed mine so much over the past coupla months that i don'te even remember what it says!! much madness is divinest sense,and much sense the starkest madness~Emily Dickinson |
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Swamp¤Faeryie Member
since 2000-12-04
Posts 393fairyland....of course;) |
oh yeah,that one. Because i have found that the outcasts of society who everyone decides to label as "crazy" are sometimes the very wisest of them all. And the most "sane" and acceptable things in society are REALLY the most pointless (i.e. wearing the right clothes,smoking,drugs,making darn sure you expose yourslf to beaucoup ultra violet so you can have a great tan for tis years prom, allthose so called "cool" things). I lovethat whole poem by emily,tis most profound and witty,everyone read it!! LOL sammi¤ much madness is divinest sense,and much sense the starkest madness~Emily Dickinson |
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Paula Finn Member Ascendant
since 2000-06-17
Posts 5546missouri |
Mine is from a song...and its just so appropriate... We all have wings...some of us don't know why |
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Dee Member Elite
since 2000-08-19
Posts 2330Queensland, Australia |
JLR, mine is from a song by Adam Brand. I use it cause I mean it. Dee I wish you every happiness and may you always have the best of the good things in life. a brand |
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JLR Senior Member
since 2001-02-04
Posts 1785 |
Thanks to everyone who has responded. I'm enjoying reading all your answers. Part of the reason I've asked I think is because I am kind of a mental collector of epitaphs. I'm thinking...'What a Difference a Day Makes' would be appropriate and hopefully amuse anyone strolling by. And also because I'm trying to settle on a signature for myself. I take the oddest things so seriously. Thanks all! |
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Alicat Member Elite
since 1999-05-23
Posts 4094Coastal Texas |
Well, my first tag was Le Jongleur Aspirante, which loosely translates to the aspiring bard/poet, from Norman French, ca. 1200. The next was my own creation: As I sit here dimly thinking Watching modem lights a-blinking Churning out poetic hash. Lord, in all Your piety, Help me keep my sanity: Please don't let the modem crash! However, this one sometimes got chopped up due to signature field limits. I've used from time to time 'If I were any more laid back, I'd be in a coma'. The current one was found in an astrological email I receive from England. In addition to horoscopes, or horrorscopes, since the guy pulls no punches, there are quotes and bizarre news items. Saw it, liked it, used it. Alicat, the oft-timed Kilted Persnikitty (pun of persnickety) “It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” Charles Darwin |
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Sven
since 1999-11-23
Posts 14937East Lansing, MI USA |
Mine right now is something that a friend of mine sent to me. . . I don't know who said it, but I like it because it shows the power of one person. . . My first quote That which gives light must endure burning was a quote from Viktor Frankl, and I loved it because it's me. . . and it's anyone that shines for others. . . it shows what we must do. . . what we're called to do. . . ------------------------------------------------------------ To the world, you may only be one person. But to one person, you may be the world. |
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walker Member Elite
since 2001-02-11
Posts 2240Florida |
My favorite of all, is Sven's signature. Mine I made up, but will soon be change for something by Rob Thomas(Matchbox Twenty). A quarter of a century must pass, for the writer to understand what and why he writes. |
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LoveBug
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Member Elite
since 2000-01-08
Posts 4697 |
When I read "The Prince", the truth of this quote just blew me away, so I decided to make it my signature. "Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel."-Machiavelli |
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snowpants Member Elite
since 2000-09-16
Posts 2061KS |
Ahh, well...mine is from a phenomenal song, which I listen to day and night...and I'll NEVER get sick of it...wonderful song...*sigh*...ok...I'm done...thanks for the thread...these are quite interesting! sp  everytime I close my eyes, I see your face, I taste you on my lips... every night I fantasize that I can feel you on my fingertips... |
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Sven
since 1999-11-23
Posts 14937East Lansing, MI USA |
thank you walker!! I love that we can use signatures here. . . gives everyone a little more insight into each other as poets and people. . . ------------------------------------------------------------- To the world, you may only be one person. But to one person, you may be the world. |
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wayoutwalt Member Elite
since 1999-06-22
Posts 4870TEXAS (it's all big) |
well it was better than saying "well you know the never ending fart?" You know the "Never Ending Story"? They're still telling it! |
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Dopey Dope
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Member Patricius
since 2000-08-30
Posts 11132San Juan, Puerto Rico |
Thank God Acire didn't come up with that one. ANyway......mine.....I got 2... the one about me staying the way I am...I made up in this defiant mood. Pissed off at the world and not willing to change for noone and nothing. The other one......my shadow......yea It was supposed to be the first 2 lines of a poem, but I never finished it. If I don't finish a poem and have only a few lines I'll put it ina group of works called POETRY PORTIONS.....so that's an excerpt from poetry portions.  I was born myself, raised myself, and will continue to be myself. The world will just have to adjust. I'm in love with my shadow I admire it daily |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
I've created my own, and at times, used quotations....all I can say is...keep reading...and visit cemetaries...there are some good ones out there! Karilea If I whisper, will you listen?... I would rather be silent and write, than speak loudly and be bound. KRJ |
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Severn Member Rara Avis
since 1999-07-17
Posts 7704 |
Mine change pretty much on a monthly basis - right now the one I have is from a recent experience...it just really felt this way...  K...and I have found a lifetime can be lived in one moment... |
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Colin Senior Member
since 1999-06-05
Posts 596Callington, Cornwall, England |
I looked in an online quotes site for quotes that refer to trees because I'm a tree surgeon and like trees. Here's what I came up with Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. - Bill Vaughan |
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ATelamon Member
since 2001-02-06
Posts 328Purgatory, Last Staircase, Up |
Well the rason I use so many is they come neary daily via the USPS in plain brown paper, with a barely decipherable post mark from someplace called "The Pablo Research Institute, Seminole Island..." The rest is always smudged out. Being one who rarely looks a gift quote in the mouth, I dutifully transfer them to cyber land. Generally about that time they spontaneously combust. You see the hold this place has over me. What if I didn't use them. Would I be the next to combust? Oddly Yours AT "The days are razors. They slice me in to pieces unidentifiable, unsuitable for human viewing." |
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Elizabeth Cor Senior Member
since 2000-10-13
Posts 879Over the river and through the woods |
Mine change so often... the one I have now? I happened upon this quotation during a VERY rough time in my life. The words hit me in that rare emotional enlightening way and snapped me out of self-pity and romanticism. Since, it has become a sort of a motto for me... when my life becomes difficult, I have to look around at the various directions I receive love -- family, friends, lovers -- and remember what I’ve learned of the difference between romance, idealism, dependency and the actual raw, struggling nature of love in all it’s forms. Sometimes another person’s idea of love is very hard to accept, and being on the recipient end can often be painful … Reading over these words reminds me that living is not meant to be easy, especially that little section dubbed relationships… Be they healthy and beautiful or disastrous. Btw, Colin, I LOVE your signature… one of my favorites. |
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Elizabeth Cor Senior Member
since 2000-10-13
Posts 879Over the river and through the woods |
*laughs* WOW, where's YOUR brain today, Beth? I type all that out and then forget to check "Show Signature"... LOL excuse me now... *sits in the corner, dons a dunce cap* Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war, love is a growing up. [This message has been edited by Elizabeth Cor (edited 03-04-2001).] |
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dreamer1 12 5 24 Member
since 2000-12-11
Posts 150crossing between |
Mine is from an essay by Robert Kaplan. I like it, it's different. I'm thinking of changing it, but I'm not sure if I want to. Any input anyone? I can't tell you what my alternatives are, it would ruin the surprise!  ....peace as a primary objective is dangerous because it implies that we would sacrifice any principle for the sake of it.... Robert Kaplan |
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Moon Dust
since 1999-06-11
Posts 2177Skelmersdale, UK |
Whatever lesson I've learn so far. and sometimes quotes from shakepear and the likes. Don't ever give in, if you do you've lost everything you've ever had and everything you hope to gain, but if you carry on your already winning. |
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DancinQueen
since 2000-07-29
Posts 1092Kokomo,IN,USA |
mine is just from a past experience ..... ¤Sometimes the hardest thing to get over, is something you never really had¤ |
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WhtDove Member Rara Avis
since 1999-07-22
Posts 9245Illinois |
I've changed mine quite a bit as well, though I've stuck with these 2 for a while now. One was in an email, the other I got on a little card from my Mom. <*\\\>< I know not what the future holds, but I know Who holds the future. I don't question YOUR existance - GOD |
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Allan Riverwood
since 2001-01-04
Posts 3502Winnipeg |
I am quite close to many of the people I met in Teen #4. I talk to them often... every now and then one of them will say something signature worthy so I just use that.  I like this one. Carly is a genius. If I had your eyes, I'd be blind. For I can only see out of my own. ~~Carly Van Dort |
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Christopher
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-02
Posts 8296Purgatorial Incarceration |
If you kill a man, you're a murderer. Kill many, and you're a conqueror. Kill 'em all, and you're a god. -Don't know? |
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Fading Away
since 2001-03-14
Posts 3131Lynchburg, Virginia |
Okay.. mine is about someone who hurt me emotionally not too long ago. He knows about me, and knows what will make me upset, but he went TOO FAR. Whatever friendship we had is now over, and he let me down completely... that's the stroy behind mine... not too exciting, but something worth sharing --Marie I never thought that you would ever be the one to let me down. I guess that just goes to show how wrong I always am. |
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