Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
E. E. CUMMINGSThe Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.
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Great men burn bridges before they come to them.
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You and I are more than you and I because it’s we.
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Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
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Laughing is just another way of showing people your wise.
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It is with roses and locomotives that my poems are competing.
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Equality is what does not exist among mortals.
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Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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Remember one thing only: that it’s you-nobody else-who determines your destiny and decides your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.
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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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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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Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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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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Twice I have lived forever in a smile.
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you’re a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you’re nobody-but-yourself.
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