more of other people's words

O you whom I often and silently come where you are,
    that I may be with you;
As I walk by your side, or sit near,
    or remain in the same room with you,
Little you know the subtle electric fire
    that for your sake is playing within me.

--Walt Whitman

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"amy, I wonder why when you have a crush it's the realest thing in the world to you."

--my friend will