I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air Alive with closed eyes to dash against darkness.
E. E. CUMMINGSI’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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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 hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.
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Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.
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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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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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The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.
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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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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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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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Your head is a living forest full of songbirds.
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May my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living.
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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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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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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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