An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects.
E. E. CUMMINGSI’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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It is with roses and locomotives that my poems are competing.
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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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As small as a world as large as alone.
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Somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond.
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Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches.
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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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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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Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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May my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living.
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I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.
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A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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You shall above all things be glad and young.
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