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.
E. E. CUMMINGSWe 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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The eyes of my eyes are opened.
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I 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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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.
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You and I are more than you and I because it’s we.
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Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
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I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
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We can never be born enough.
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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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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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Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.
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Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.
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Nobody loses all the time.
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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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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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