I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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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Do not hate or fear the artist in yourselves… Honor and love him do not try to possess him. Trust him as nobly as you trust tomorrow. Only the artist in yourself is more truthful than the night.
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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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If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little – somebody who is obsessed by Making.
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And this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)
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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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Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
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Here is the deepest secret nobody knows. Here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide. And this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)
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Your head is a living forest full of songbirds.
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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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As small as a world as large as alone.
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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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A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
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The eyes of my eyes are opened.
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Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
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