I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGSYours is the light by which my spirit’s born: – you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
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A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
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For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It’s always our self we find in the sea.
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I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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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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The artist is not a man who describes, but a man who feels.
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Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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May my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living.
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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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You have played, (I think) And broke the toys you were fondest of, And are a little tired now; Tired of things that break, and— Just tired. So am I.
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Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear.
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Existing’s tricky:but to live’s a gift.
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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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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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