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.
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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I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear.
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You shall above all things be glad and young.
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May my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living.
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I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air Alive with closed eyes to dash against darkness.
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Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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The theory of the free press is not that the truth will be presented completely or perfectly in any one instance, but that the truth will emerge from free discussion.
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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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Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
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To be nobody-but-yourself – in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
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Only by you my heart always moves.
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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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It is with roses and locomotives that my poems are competing.
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Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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As small as a world as large as alone.
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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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Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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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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I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches.
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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Exists no miracle mightier than this: to feel.
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One’s not half two. It’s two are halves of one.
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Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
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