Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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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Well, write poetry, for God’s sake, it’s the only thing that matters.
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Twice I have lived forever in a smile.
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Existing’s tricky:but to live’s a gift.
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Suppose Life is an old man carrying flowers on his head.
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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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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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Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.
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Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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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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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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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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Nobody loses all the time.
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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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We can never be born enough.
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