I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGSWhenever 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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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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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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The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.
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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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Existing’s tricky:but to live’s a gift.
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You have played, (I think) And broke the toys you were fondest of, And are a little tired now; Tired of things that break, and— Just tired. So am I.
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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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I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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Exists no miracle mightier than this: to feel.
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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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May my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living.
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May my heart always be open to little birds, who are the secrets of living. Whatever they sing is better than to know. And if men should not hear them – then men are old.
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As small as a world as large as alone.
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