The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.
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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Laughing is just another way of showing people your wise.
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Existing’s tricky:but to live’s a gift.
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It is with roses and locomotives that my poems are competing.
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Exists no miracle mightier than this: to feel.
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I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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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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Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
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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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The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches.
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Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.
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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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A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.
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Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.
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