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 learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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The hardest fight a man has to fight is to live in a world where every single day someone is trying to make you someone you do not want to be–
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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little – somebody who is obsessed by Making.
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I’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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Equality is what does not exist among mortals.
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Lovers alone wear sunlight.
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I love you much most beautiful darling more than anyone on the earth and I like you better than everything in the sky.
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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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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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Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.
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Sweet springtime is my time is your time is our time for springtime is love time and viva sweet love.
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A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
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