May my heart always be open to little birds, who are the secrets of living. Whatever they sing is better than to know. And if men should not hear them – then men are old.
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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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 three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying ‘anywhere but here’.
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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Sweet springtime is my time is your time is our time for springtime is love time and viva sweet love.
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A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.
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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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Lovers alone wear sunlight.
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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.
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Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
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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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Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
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You shall above all things be glad and young For if you’re young, whatever life you wear it will become you; and if you are glad whatever’s living will yourself become.
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Your head is a living forest full of songbirds.
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