Because you aren’t afraid to kiss the dirt (and consequently dare to climb the sky)
E. E. CUMMINGSThe artist is not a man who describes, but a man who feels.
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Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.
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I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
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One’s not half two. It’s two are halves of one.
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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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The hardest fight a man has to fight is to live in a world where every single day someone is trying to make you someone you do not want to be–
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A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
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Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
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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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The voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses.
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Love is the whole and more than all.
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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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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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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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Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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Existing’s tricky:but to live’s a gift.
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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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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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Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
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Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.
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I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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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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For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It’s always our self we find in the sea.
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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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