A poet is someone who is abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement. Which is to say the highest form of concentration possible: fascination; to report on the electrifying experience of being.
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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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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Existing’s tricky:but to live’s a gift.
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Laughing is just another way of showing people your wise.
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Equality is what does not exist among mortals.
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Love is the whole and more than all.
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The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.
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The voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses.
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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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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
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We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
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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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For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It’s always our self we find in the sea.
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Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
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Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: – you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
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The eyes of my eyes are opened.
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