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.
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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Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.
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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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As small as a world as large as alone.
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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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We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
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Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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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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A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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One’s not half two. It’s two are halves of one.
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Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear.
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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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Your head is a living forest full of songbirds.
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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 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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