Because you aren’t afraid to kiss the dirt (and consequently dare to climb the sky)
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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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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Progress is a comfortable disease.
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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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Somewhere i have never traveled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence; in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near.
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You and I are more than you and I because it’s we.
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Exists no miracle mightier than this: to feel.
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Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
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Twice I have lived forever in a smile.
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Well, write poetry, for God’s sake, it’s the only thing that matters.
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An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects.
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May my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living.
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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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Somewhere i have never traveled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence; in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near.
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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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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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