You and I are more than you and I because it’s we.
E. E. CUMMINGSYou shall above all things be glad and young For if you’re young, whatever life you wear it will become you; and if you are glad whatever’s living will yourself become.
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For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It’s always our self we find in the sea.
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I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air Alive with closed eyes to dash against darkness.
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The eyes of my eyes are opened.
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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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Laughing is just another way of showing people your wise.
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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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Great men burn bridges before they come to them.
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I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
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Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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May my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living.
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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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It is with roses and locomotives that my poems are competing.
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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 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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I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
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