The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility.
E. E. CUMMINGS
E. E. CUMMINGS
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Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings 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.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Lovers alone wear sunlight.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: – you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Existing’s tricky:but to live’s a gift.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings And now you are and I am and we’re a mystery which will never happen again.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Lovers alone wear sunlight.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings And now you are and I am and we’re a mystery which will never happen again.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: – you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Existing’s tricky:but to live’s a gift.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: – you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
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