The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.
E. E. CUMMINGSSomeone asked me what home was and all I could think of were the stars on the tip of your tongue, the flowers sprouting from your mouth, the roots entwined in the gaps between your fingers, the ocean echoing inside of your ribcage.
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An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects.
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.
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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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I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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As small as a world as large as alone.
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The eyes of my eyes are opened.
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Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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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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May my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living.
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And this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)
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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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Here’s to opening and upward… and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughing.
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A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
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Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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