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.
E. E. CUMMINGSHere’s to opening and upward… and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughing.
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Lovers alone wear sunlight.
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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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Someone 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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I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.
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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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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
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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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If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little – somebody who is obsessed by Making.
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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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And now you are and I am and we’re a mystery which will never happen again.
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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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The voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses.
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