I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air Alive with closed eyes to dash against darkness.
E. E. CUMMINGSMost people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.
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May my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living.
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I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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Exists no miracle mightier than this: to feel.
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The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.
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Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.
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Equality is what does not exist among mortals.
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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You shall above all things be glad and young For if you’re young, whatever life you wear it will become you; and if you are glad whatever’s living will yourself become.
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Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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The eyes of my eyes are opened.
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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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As small as a world as large as alone.
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Somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond.
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We can never be born enough.
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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
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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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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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We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
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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 learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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One’s not half two. It’s two are halves of one.
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Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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The eyes of my eyes are opened.
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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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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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