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.
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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Here’s to opening and upward… and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughing.
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Well, write poetry, for God’s sake, it’s the only thing that matters.
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As small as a world as large as alone.
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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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It is with roses and locomotives that my poems are competing.
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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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Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear.
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Lovers alone wear sunlight.
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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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I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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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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Suppose Life is an old man carrying flowers on his head.
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May my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living.
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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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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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You shall above all things be glad and young.
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Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
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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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We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
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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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The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches.
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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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Equality is what does not exist among mortals.
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Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.
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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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