An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects.
E. E. CUMMINGSIt takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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Suppose Life is an old man carrying flowers on his head.
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A poet is someone who is abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement. Which is to say the highest form of concentration possible: fascination; to report on the electrifying experience of being.
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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Equality is what does not exist among mortals.
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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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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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Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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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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And now you are and I am and we’re a mystery which will never happen again.
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Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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Love is the whole and more than all.
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We can never be born enough.
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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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The eyes of my eyes are opened.
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