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)
E. E. CUMMINGSAn intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects.
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Because you aren’t afraid to kiss the dirt (and consequently dare to climb the sky)
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An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects.
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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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Nobody loses all the time.
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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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And now you are and I am and we’re a mystery which will never happen again.
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Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear.
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Great men burn bridges before they come to them.
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Existing’s tricky:but to live’s a gift.
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You 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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The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.
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Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.
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Exists no miracle mightier than this: to feel.
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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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Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: – you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
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I love you much most beautiful darling more than anyone on the earth and I like you better than everything in the sky.
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Love is the whole and more than all.
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Well, write poetry, for God’s sake, it’s the only thing that matters.
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Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
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A poet is someone who is abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement. Which is to say the highest form of concentration possible: fascination; to report on the electrifying experience of being.
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The eyes of my eyes are opened.
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Remember one thing only: that it’s you-nobody else-who determines your destiny and decides your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.
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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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You and I are more than you and I because it’s we.
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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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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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