If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little – somebody who is obsessed by Making.
E. E. CUMMINGSTake the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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Laughing is just another way of showing people your wise.
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Well, write poetry, for God’s sake, it’s the only thing that matters.
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A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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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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Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: – you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
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Twice I have lived forever in a smile.
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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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Suppose Life is an old man carrying flowers on his head.
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You shall above all things be glad and young.
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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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Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
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Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.
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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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I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air Alive with closed eyes to dash against darkness.
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