Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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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Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
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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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A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.
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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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I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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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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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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Suppose Life is an old man carrying flowers on his head.
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Existing’s tricky:but to live’s a gift.
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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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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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Somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond.
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I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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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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