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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

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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Bird Choice Dance Learning Myself Sing Stars Teaching
Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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Appearance Minute Moon
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
Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.
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Goodness Let Go Listening Universe
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
To be nobody-but-yourself – in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
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Battle Be Yourself Best Deep Fight Hard Human Love Night Self Stop Wisdom World
The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility.
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Philosophy Possible Reality Wisdom Yourself
A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
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Exception Man Politics
To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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Creation Deep Destroy Wisdom
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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Deep Eyes Myself Rose Understand Voice
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 and I are more than you and I because it’s we.
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Deep Love Myself Relationship Yourself
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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Beyond Experience Eyes Happiness Myself Silence Touch Travel
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
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
Your head is a living forest full of songbirds.
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Bird Head Live Song

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