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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

E. E. Cummings

The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.
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Artist Himself Learning Order
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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Deep Eyes Myself Rose Understand Voice
The eyes of my eyes are opened.
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Deep Eyes Myself One Liner Open
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
The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.
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Be Yourself Challenge Hard World Yourself
I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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Bird Choice Dance Learning Myself Sing Stars Teaching
Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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Appearance Minute Moon
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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Creation Existence Experience Movement Poet Possible
I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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Bird Choice Dance Learning Myself Sing Stars Teaching
Love is the whole and more than all.
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Love One Liner
I love you much most beautiful darling more than anyone on the earth and I like you better than everything in the sky.
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Beautiful Earth Love Sky
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
Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
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Better Fate Kiss Wisdom
An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects.
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Fight Intelligence Lost Person
The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches.
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Change Nature Soft Touch
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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Fingers Flower Home Ocean Stars Thinking Tongue

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