The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.
E. E. CUMMINGS
E. E. CUMMINGS
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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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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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E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings 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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