Because you aren’t afraid to kiss the dirt (and consequently dare to climb the sky)
E. E. CUMMINGSThe theory of the free press is not that the truth will be presented completely or perfectly in any one instance, but that the truth will emerge from free discussion.
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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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Twice I have lived forever in a smile.
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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 Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.
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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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Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
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Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.
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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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Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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You and I are more than you and I because it’s we.
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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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Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: – you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
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Existing’s tricky:but to live’s a gift.
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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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