Remember one thing only: that it’s you-nobody else-who determines your destiny and decides your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.
E. E. CUMMINGSAmerica makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.
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Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: – you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
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Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you’re a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you’re nobody-but-yourself.
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A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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The hardest fight a man has to fight is to live in a world where every single day someone is trying to make you someone you do not want to be–
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The symbol of all art is the Prism. The goal is unrealism. The method is destructive. To break up the white light of objective realism, into the secret glories which it contains.
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A poet is someone who is abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement. Which is to say the highest form of concentration possible: fascination; to report on the electrifying experience of being.
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I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air Alive with closed eyes to dash against darkness.
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Lovers alone wear sunlight.
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I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
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The artist is not a man who describes, but a man who feels.
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Laughing is just another way of showing people your wise.
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A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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Love is the whole and more than all.
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Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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Sweet springtime is my time is your time is our time for springtime is love time and viva sweet love.
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