Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.
E. E. CUMMINGSRemember one thing only: that it’s you-nobody else-who determines your destiny and decides your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.
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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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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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It is with roses and locomotives that my poems are competing.
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Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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The eyes of my eyes are opened.
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Lovers alone wear sunlight.
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May my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living.
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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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A poet is someone who is abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement. Which is to say the highest form of concentration possible: fascination; to report on the electrifying experience of being.
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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
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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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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 three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying ‘anywhere but here’.
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Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
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Here’s to opening and upward… and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughing.
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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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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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Love is the whole and more than all.
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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 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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Sweet springtime is my time is your time is our time for springtime is love time and viva sweet love.
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You and I are more than you and I because it’s we.
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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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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.
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Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: – you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
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