Conor Oberst Quote Explained: Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam.

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So when your new eyes meet mine they won’t see no lies, just love.

Singer-songwriter

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I think different musical collaborators bring out different qualities in my songs and I like that.

- Conor Oberst

Singer-songwriter

Musical

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Everything must belong somewhere. I know that now, that’s why I’m staying here.

- Conor Oberst

Singer-songwriter

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There’s a very fine line between one person’s reality and another person’s fantasy.

- Conor Oberst

Singer-songwriter

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Life is always surprising to me. When you think it’s going to get dull, it never really does.

- Conor Oberst

Singer-songwriter

Dull

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You could be happy, the minute you try. Why won’t you try? Oh won’t you try?

- Conor Oberst

Singer-songwriter

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We’ve all seen the power music has to spread messages of solidarity and hope.

- Conor Oberst

Singer-songwriter

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There’s a lot of optimism in changing scenery, in seeing what’s down the road.

- Conor Oberst

Singer-songwriter

Optimism

Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam.

Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam.

So when your new eyes meet mine they won’t see no lies, just love.

I think different musical collaborators bring out different qualities in my songs and I like that.

Everything must belong somewhere. I know that now, that’s why I’m staying here.

There’s a very fine line between one person’s reality and another person’s fantasy.

Life is always surprising to me. When you think it’s going to get dull, it never really does.

You could be happy, the minute you try. Why won’t you try? Oh won’t you try?

We’ve all seen the power music has to spread messages of solidarity and hope.

There’s a lot of optimism in changing scenery, in seeing what’s down the road.

A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.

Life is a kind of sleep: old men sleep longest, nor begin to wake but when they are to die. Explain

When sparrows build and the leaves break forth My old sorrow wakes and cries.

O woman! thou wert fashioned to beguile: So have all sages said, all poets sung.

Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything.

I often want to cry. That is the only advantage women have over men — at least they can cry.

I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become.

I’d spent half of my life crying, the other half refusing to cry

Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam.

Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam.

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