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I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

E. E. Cummings

The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.
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Artist Himself Learning Order
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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Brave Hell Mistake Nation Patriot
Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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Born Deep People Philosophy Thinking
Time is a tree (this life one leaf) but love is the sky and i am for you just so long and long enough.
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Enough Life Sky Time Tree Yourself
Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: – you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
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Born Light Moon Myself Spirit Stars Sun
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
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Believe Experience Human Reveal Risk Spirit Wonderful
The symbol of all art is the Prism. The goal is unrealism. The method is destructive. To break up the white light of objective realism, into the secret glories which it contains.
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Art Break Deep Destruction Glory Goal Light Reality Secret White
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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Fingers Flower Home Ocean Stars Thinking Tongue
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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Deep Happiness Life Live Nature Transformation Wisdom Young
Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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Afraid People Silence
A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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Appearance Beautiful Pretty Woman Worth
Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.
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Fire Heart Love Sea Stars Trust Walk Yourself
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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Believe Feeling Moments People Thinking Yourself
The theory of the free press is not that the truth will be presented completely or perfectly in any one instance, but that the truth will emerge from free discussion.
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Born Freedom Perfection Present Theory Truth
Equality is what does not exist among mortals.
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Equality Existence Mortal
Exists no miracle mightier than this: to feel.
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Existence Feeling Magic

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