Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.
E. E. CUMMINGSTime 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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One’s not half two. It’s two are halves of one.
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Well, write poetry, for God’s sake, it’s the only thing that matters.
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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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The eyes of my eyes are opened.
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Suppose Life is an old man carrying flowers on his head.
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America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.
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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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Here’s to opening and upward… and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughing.
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We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
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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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Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.
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And now you are and I am and we’re a mystery which will never happen again.
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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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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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