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.
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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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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A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.
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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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Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.
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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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Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear.
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Love is the whole and more than all.
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As small as a world as large as alone.
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Existing’s tricky:but to live’s a gift.
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Only by you my heart always moves.
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Great men burn bridges before they come to them.
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