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.
E. E. CUMMINGSMay my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living.
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You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
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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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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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You and I are more than you and I because it’s we.
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Lovers alone wear sunlight.
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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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The artist is not a man who describes, but a man who feels.
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Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.
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Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear.
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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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As small as a world as large as alone.
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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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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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Great men burn bridges before they come to them.
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You and I are more than you and I because it’s we.
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