It is with roses and locomotives that my poems are competing.
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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Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.
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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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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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Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.
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The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches.
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Twice I have lived forever in a smile.
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One’s not half two. It’s two are halves of one.
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The artist is not a man who describes, but a man who feels.
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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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As small as a world as large as alone.
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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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Do not hate or fear the artist in yourselves… Honor and love him do not try to possess him. Trust him as nobly as you trust tomorrow. Only the artist in yourself is more truthful than the night.
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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
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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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And now you are and I am and we’re a mystery which will never happen again.
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