The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches.
E. E. CUMMINGSMay my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living.
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Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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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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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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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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It is with roses and locomotives that my poems are competing.
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Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.
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I love you much most beautiful darling more than anyone on the earth and I like you better than everything in the sky.
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Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: – you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
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The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying ‘anywhere but here’.
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Twice I have lived forever in a smile.
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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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The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.
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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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Because you aren’t afraid to kiss the dirt (and consequently dare to climb the sky)
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