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I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

E. E. Cummings

One’s not half two. It’s two are halves of one.
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Deep Mathematics Oneself Wisdom
Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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Born Deep People Philosophy Thinking
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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Believe Feeling Moments People Thinking Yourself
A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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Appearance Beautiful Pretty Woman Worth
And now you are and I am and we’re a mystery which will never happen again.
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Love Myself Mystery Yourself
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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Brave Hell Mistake Nation Patriot
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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Creation Obsession Poet Writing
Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear.
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Fear Hope Love Silence Voice
Existing’s tricky:but to live’s a gift.
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Existence Gift Live Trick
Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: – you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
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Born Light Moon Myself Spirit Stars Sun
Time is a tree (this life one leaf) but love is the sky and i am for you just so long and long enough.
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Enough Life Sky Time Tree Yourself
Somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond.
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Beyond Happiness Myself Travel
Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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Born Deep People Philosophy Thinking
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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Courage Grow Up Yourself
Here’s to opening and upward… and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughing.
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Laughter Open Yourself
May my heart always be open to little birds, who are the secrets of living. Whatever they sing is better than to know. And if men should not hear them – then men are old.
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Bird Heart Live Man Old Secret Sing

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