Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.
E. E. CUMMINGSI’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
More E. E. Cummings Quotes
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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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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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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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Do not hate or fear the artist in yourselves… Honor and love him do not try to possess him. Trust him as nobly as you trust tomorrow. Only the artist in yourself is more truthful than the night.
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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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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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I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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Somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond.
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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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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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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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You and I are more than you and I because it’s we.
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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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