Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
E. E. CUMMINGSI 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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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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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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The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.
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I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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Well, write poetry, for God’s sake, it’s the only thing that matters.
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Here’s to opening and upward… and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughing.
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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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Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.
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Sweet springtime is my time is your time is our time for springtime is love time and viva sweet love.
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Lovers alone wear sunlight.
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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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An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects.
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You have played, (I think) And broke the toys you were fondest of, And are a little tired now; Tired of things that break, and— Just tired. So am I.
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Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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I fear no fate(for you are my fate, my sweet)i want no world(for beautiful you are my world, my true) and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you here is the deepest secret nobody knows.
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A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
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Love is the whole and more than all.
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Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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Take 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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The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.
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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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Somewhere 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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The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches.
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Lovers alone wear sunlight.
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Here’s to opening and upward… and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughing.
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