Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.
E. E. CUMMINGSI’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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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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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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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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Here’s to opening and upward… and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughing.
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Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.
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Somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond.
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You and I are more than you and I because it’s we.
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Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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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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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects.
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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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You and I are more than you and I because it’s we.
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You have played, (I think) And broke the toys you were fondest of, And are a little tired now; Tired of things that break, and— Just tired. So am I.
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