Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
E. E. CUMMINGSAmerica 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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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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May my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living.
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The eyes of my eyes are opened.
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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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You and I are more than you and I because it’s we.
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Lovers alone wear sunlight.
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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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Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: – you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
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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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I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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One’s not half two. It’s two are halves of one.
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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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Existing’s tricky:but to live’s a gift.
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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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As small as a world as large as alone.
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