If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little – somebody who is obsessed by Making.
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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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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It is with roses and locomotives that my poems are competing.
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
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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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The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches.
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I do not know what it is about you that closes and opens; only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses.
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Here is the deepest secret nobody knows. Here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide. 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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Exists no miracle mightier than this: to feel.
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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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And now you are and I am and we’re a mystery which will never happen again.
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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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I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
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