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.
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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The eyes of my eyes are opened.
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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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Here’s to opening and upward… and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughing.
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To be nobody-but-yourself – in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
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I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
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I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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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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Lovers alone wear sunlight.
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As small as a world as large as alone.
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You have played, (I think) And broke the toys you were fondest of, And are a little tired now; Tired of things that break, and— Just tired. So am I.
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A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects.
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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