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.
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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I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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The hardest fight a man has to fight is to live in a world where every single day someone is trying to make you someone you do not want to be–
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Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
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Existing’s tricky:but to live’s a gift.
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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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As small as a world as large as alone.
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The eyes of my eyes are opened.
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The theory of the free press is not that the truth will be presented completely or perfectly in any one instance, but that the truth will emerge from free discussion.
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I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air Alive with closed eyes to dash against darkness.
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Suppose Life is an old man carrying flowers on his head.
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Love is the whole and more than all.
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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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Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.
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Lovers alone wear sunlight.
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Sweet springtime is my time is your time is our time for springtime is love time and viva sweet love.
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