You shall above all things be glad and young For if you’re young, whatever life you wear it will become you; and if you are glad whatever’s living will yourself become.
E. E. CUMMINGSIt takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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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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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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Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
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A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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Great men burn bridges before they come to them.
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The eyes of my eyes are opened.
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I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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Nobody loses all the time.
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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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I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
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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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Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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Exists no miracle mightier than this: to feel.
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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’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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