Here's the stuff we found when you searched for "I always thought what was there was less important than what was missing"

• there was at that moment no one more rightful dead than that unknown and faceless man
• Foam on the tide is no more or less real than the sea, it simply is, was, will be
• She didn't write like Emily Dickinson, but she did live in a house overlooking a cemetery, and I guess he thought that was important.
• This is no joke; I always thought it was a company that made trench coats.
• There was always the blue of you
• I was less than one hundred footsteps away from you I suppose
• Shaymus is older than I thought he was
• I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
• there was more poetry in her shopping lists than in any of my rhymes
• Why, Martha, for the longest time there was no railway station in Slough!
• There was a time when I was a better person
• The light on the bottom of the pool that you thought was real when you were a child
• There never was a body that gave the undertaker a tip
• there was a time when you couldn't just learn things instantly
• It was more than perfect understanding
• There once was a chicken named Alice
• Unfortunately, there was no applause
• I was there
• Wheresoever he went, there was Eden
• What if Everything You Thought You Knew About AIDS Was Wrong?
• To a girl who thought she was moving away
• It was always about words
• What I wrote when I was missing David
• Johnny Clueless was there, with his Simulated Wood-Grain
• So I turned round and there was an inflatable man sat at the table
• There was a man who lived a life of fire
• No one learned anything, because there was nothing to learn.
• He stretched out his arms but she was not there
• Dumb laws
• I Thought I Was A Child
• Fast-talking career gal who thought she was one of the boys
• It was always hot here
• i thought i was special, but it was you
• God was creepier than I expected so I took it out on the little people
• There once was a girl named Irene
• Where there was fire I brought the gasoline
• Her innocence fell. She kicked at it some, frowned, and left it there because it was beautiful.
• So there I was, naked and hiding, facing the dissertation committee from the Isle of Lesbos
• There was a man and a woman
• There was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
• There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
• Two of them. Hovering there like bloated gas giants in the heavens. Good God, it was beautiful.
• There was a time before
• Just standing there, wearing my boxers, in my driveway. I was watching the stormfront. You were watching me.
• There Was No Leak
• There was no one waiting for me...
• There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
• There was a young lady of Riga
• Sex with my accountant was always really, really efficient
• The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
• Once there was a way...
• No important data was harmed by the ILOVEYOU worm
• For 5 minutes precisely, I thought I was dead
• Was I nearly as anti-consumerism as I had initially thought?
• There was a little girl
• I Thought My Father Was God
• I woke up and thought it was Saturday
• The girls had gone wild and now my dad's cock was missing
• In the end it was always a stranger's hand
• Sex with my sister was always really, really good
• more sure of all I thought was true
• I thought that what I was taught was true.
• No one older than twenty-five was stupid enough to take a job here.
• Noding for Numbers sure was silly, but it sure is better than Dada Fascism
• Where's the kaboom?
• Last year was always better
• It all burned up in the fire there was nothing left
• There was a moment of drunken silence
• There was a land where lived no violets
• There was this one great night at Alice's house,
• I stared into the muddled sky with tears running down my face in small rivers, and I knew then that there was no hope
• There Was a Child Went Forth
• There Was a Man of Double Deed
• He thinks a path and travels the emptiness that was there
• There once was a man from St. Paul
• One hour there was sunlight
• The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
• and there was this girl
• There was a rose that faded young
• the dead had risen, and there was nobody to pump gas
• There Once Was a Farmer
• Before you, there was me
• In the end it did not matter. The ocean was still there.
• There Was A Friend
• Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
• There was a cold day
• Before inertia, there was impetus
• There was a baby in China
• There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
• She was never mine. I always shared her.
• A knock there was upon the door
• Was There a Time
• She always was all tea and oranges that came all the way from China
• Charles Bridgeman
• Sex with the Stewards of Gondor was always very lame
• There was a time when I got lost wherever I went.
• There Was a Desert in My Head
• Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
• Dome 27 Was Always the Coldest
• relatedly somehow, there was a point a few years ago when I learned how to terrify
• Once there was a bug in a hole that he dug
• Once when I got like this I thought I was building a boat
• No matter where I was, whisps of you haunted my thoughts
• nor was there anything to be attained that you didn't already have
• There was just the magic I'd brought and laid there over the years, piled up in the corners like twinkling dust bunnies
• I worked at the mall in the 80s. There was a cult that used to recruit out on the front steps.
• She probably thought your first language was English; your real first language was Joyce
• I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes
• The teachers thought I was insane
• i saw the ugliest thing in the world and thought it was neat-o
• The smiles you smiled when you thought no one was looking
• You thought the silent treatment was as cold as it could get
• He was there, and then he wasn't, and with him went those memories
• I was once smaller than a jellybean, but now look at me - I am macroscopic!
• She always was devious in her beauty
• I thought he was a man but he was just a little boy
• The emotion on her face was always the one that she was feeling in her heart
• bringing me back to when less was worth more
• More than he was willing to give
• When I woke up this morning, I thought I was a parallelogram. I still have a sneaking suspicion.
• The one thing I wanted more than anything was for someone, just once, to tell me they don't know what they'd do without me
• I can't remember why I thought this was a bad idea
• The Saudis were terrified that someone was going to be a better Muslim than they were
• I didn't ask if the glass was half full or half empty. I've always had enough to drink.
• With him it was always like
• I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now
• what I thought was going to be a turtleneck turned out to be a dickey
• Well, I was tired of being 24 anyway, so there
• I remember, there was one
• It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
• There was an old lady
• There was once a Man
• There was a man with tongue of wood
• Was it ever there?
• No shit, there I was
• (because this was always subconsciously the inspiration, even if I did not know it at the time, and I only realised it just now)
• "Oskee wee wee! Oskee wa wa!"
• Able was I, ere I saw Elba
• This was unexpected, my soul's connection to you
• In The Duchess Of Malfi, the horrors of act IV, scene i are less important than the characters' reaction to them
• I was expecting it to hurt like a fuck
• wa
• I Kissed "Weird Al" Yankovic and All I Got Was This Lousy T-shirt
• was
• The Walrus was Paul
• the seven hills of Rome
• This wasn't how it was supposed to be
• Music was better in the old days
• Why I was convinced I would die young
• I always told you I thought you were smarter than me
• Descartes was wrong
• Why was Cthulhu blue?
• What would aliens think of us if Everything was all they had?
• Was (Not Was)
• Kilroy was here
• Vancouver, Washington
• It was not a weather balloon at Roswell
• my only pin-up was Pelé
• Climbing cherry trees when I was younger
• Here lies one whose name was writ in water
• The cactus that told me my mom was asleep
• A poem I wrote when I was 5

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