Existing’s tricky:but to live’s a gift.
E. E. CUMMINGSAlways the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
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Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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It is with roses and locomotives that my poems are competing.
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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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An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects.
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The eyes of my eyes are opened.
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Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
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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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Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
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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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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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The eyes of my eyes are opened.
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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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Do not hate or fear the artist in yourselves… Honor and love him do not try to possess him. Trust him as nobly as you trust tomorrow. Only the artist in yourself is more truthful than the night.
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