Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
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 voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses.
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I do not know what it is about you that closes and opens; only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses.
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The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches.
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A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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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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I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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Exists no miracle mightier than this: to feel.
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An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects.
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Great men burn bridges before they come to them.
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The eyes of my eyes are opened.
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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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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 hardest fight a man has to fight is to live in a world where every single day someone is trying to make you someone you do not want to be–
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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.
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