For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It’s always our self we find in the sea.
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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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And the reason that i laugh and breathe is oh love.
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It is with roses and locomotives that my poems are competing.
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Remember 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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Lovers alone wear sunlight.
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As small as a world as large as alone.
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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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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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Well, write poetry, for God’s sake, it’s the only thing that matters.
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Twice I have lived forever in a smile.
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An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects.
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The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches.
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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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You and I are more than you and I because it’s we.
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The artist is not a man who describes, but a man who feels.
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