The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.
E. E. CUMMINGSIt takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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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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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.
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Somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond.
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Time is a tree (this life one leaf) but love is the sky and i am for you just so long and long enough.
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You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
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A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
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A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
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Your head is a living forest full of songbirds.
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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.
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Equality is what does not exist among mortals.
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One’s not half two. It’s two are halves of one.
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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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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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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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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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The eyes of my eyes are opened.
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Here’s to opening and upward… and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughing.
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You and I are more than you and I because it’s we.
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The eyes of my eyes are opened.
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A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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Love is the whole and more than all.
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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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Great men burn bridges before they come to them.
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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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