Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
E. E. CUMMINGSI’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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Lovers alone wear sunlight.
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You and I are more than you and I because it’s we.
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Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.
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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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Somewhere i have never traveled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence; in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near.
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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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And the reason that i laugh and breathe is oh love.
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Lovers alone wear sunlight.
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A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
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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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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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A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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The hardest fight a man has to fight is to live in a world where every single day someone is trying to make you someone you do not want to be–
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