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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.

E. E. Cummings

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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Break Myself Play Thinking Toy
I love you much most beautiful darling more than anyone on the earth and I like you better than everything in the sky.
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Beautiful Earth Love Sky
Here’s to opening and upward… and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughing.
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Laughter Open Yourself
Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
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Fall In Love Yourself
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
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Believe Experience Human Reveal Risk Spirit Wonderful
Well, write poetry, for God’s sake, it’s the only thing that matters.
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Art God Poetry Writing
The symbol of all art is the Prism. The goal is unrealism. The method is destructive. To break up the white light of objective realism, into the secret glories which it contains.
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Art Break Deep Destruction Glory Goal Light Reality Secret White
May my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living.
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Heart Live Myself Open Secret
The artist is not a man who describes, but a man who feels.
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Artist Description Difference Feeling Man
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 eyes of my eyes are opened.
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Deep Eyes Myself One Liner Open
Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear.
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Fear Hope Love Silence Voice
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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Alive Destiny Determination Inspirational Motivational Remember Yourself
Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.
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Goodness Let Go Listening Universe
America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.
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Brave Hell Mistake Nation Patriot
If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little – somebody who is obsessed by Making.
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Creation Obsession Poet Writing

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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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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