I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGSOnce we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
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Time is a tree (this life one leaf) but love is the sky and i am for you just so long and long enough.
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The artist is not a man who describes, but a man who feels.
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Your head is a living forest full of songbirds.
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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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Here is the deepest secret nobody knows. Here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide. And this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)
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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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You and I are more than you and I because it’s we.
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As small as a world as large as alone.
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The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches.
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Well, write poetry, for God’s sake, it’s the only thing that matters.
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Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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The eyes of my eyes are opened.
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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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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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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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