I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGSSomewhere 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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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 hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.
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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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It is with roses and locomotives that my poems are competing.
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Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: – you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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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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Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying ‘anywhere but here’.
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Existing’s tricky:but to live’s a gift.
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A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
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Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: – you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
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Great men burn bridges before they come to them.
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Progress is a comfortable disease.
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Do not hate or fear the artist in yourselves… Honor and love him do not try to possess him. Trust him as nobly as you trust tomorrow. Only the artist in yourself is more truthful than the night.
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