And the reason that i laugh and breathe is oh love.
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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Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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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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You shall above all things be glad and young.
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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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Existing’s tricky:but to live’s a gift.
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You and I are more than you and I because it’s we.
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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 pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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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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Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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The voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses.
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And this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)
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The theory of the free press is not that the truth will be presented completely or perfectly in any one instance, but that the truth will emerge from free discussion.
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