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.
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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And now you are and I am and we’re a mystery which will never happen again.
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Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
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Twice I have lived forever in a smile.
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Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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Existing’s tricky:but to live’s a gift.
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You shall above all things be glad and young For if you’re young, whatever life you wear it will become you; and if you are glad whatever’s living will yourself become.
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A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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Well, write poetry, for God’s sake, it’s the only thing that matters.
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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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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
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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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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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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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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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I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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