I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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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A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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Laughing is just another way of showing people your wise.
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The eyes of my eyes are opened.
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America 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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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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I love you much most beautiful darling more than anyone on the earth and I like you better than everything in the sky.
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Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
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I do not know what it is about you that closes and opens; only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses.
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I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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May my heart always be open to little birds, who are the secrets of living. Whatever they sing is better than to know. And if men should not hear them – then men are old.
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I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
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I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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Somewhere i have never traveled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence; in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near.
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