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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?

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Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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Appearance Minute Moon
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
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Day Laughter Oneself Wasted Time
Existing’s tricky:but to live’s a gift.
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Existence Gift Live Trick
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
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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Fight Hard Live Man Try World Yourself
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
Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: – you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
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Born Light Moon Myself Spirit Stars Sun
To be nobody-but-yourself – in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
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Battle Be Yourself Best Deep Fight Hard Human Love Night Self Stop Wisdom World
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
Love is the whole and more than all.
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Love One Liner
I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
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Dreams Forever God Nature Sky Spirit Thankful Tree
Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear.
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Fear Hope Love Silence Voice
We can never be born enough.
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Born Enough One Liner Satisfaction
Suppose Life is an old man carrying flowers on his head.
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Carry Flower Head Life Man Old
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
Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
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Beautiful Question

Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?

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