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.
E. E. CUMMINGSSomeone asked me what home was and all I could think of were the stars on the tip of your tongue, the flowers sprouting from your mouth, the roots entwined in the gaps between your fingers, the ocean echoing inside of your ribcage.
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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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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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I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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Only by you my heart always moves.
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I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
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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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To be nobody-but-yourself – in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
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Progress is a comfortable disease.
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Lovers alone wear sunlight.
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Someone asked me what home was and all I could think of were the stars on the tip of your tongue, the flowers sprouting from your mouth, the roots entwined in the gaps between your fingers, the ocean echoing inside of your ribcage.
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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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Love is the whole and more than all.
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And now you are and I am and we’re a mystery which will never happen again.
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The eyes of my eyes are opened.
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May my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living.
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