Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGSWell, write poetry, for God’s sake, it’s the only thing that matters.
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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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I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
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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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An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects.
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I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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It is with roses and locomotives that my poems are competing.
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Lovers alone wear sunlight.
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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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A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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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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Twice I have lived forever in a smile.
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Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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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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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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And now you are and I am and we’re a mystery which will never happen again.
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