I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
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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Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear.
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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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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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Lovers alone wear sunlight.
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Your head is a living forest full of songbirds.
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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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I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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Only by you my heart always moves.
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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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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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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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Here is the deepest secret nobody knows. Here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide. And this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)
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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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And the reason that i laugh and breathe is oh love.
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Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.
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