May my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living.
E. E. CUMMINGSExisting’s tricky:but to live’s a gift.
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Existing’s tricky:but to live’s a gift.
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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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Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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Lovers alone wear sunlight.
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I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
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Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear.
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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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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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Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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Because you aren’t afraid to kiss the dirt (and consequently dare to climb the sky)
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For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It’s always our self we find in the sea.
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I fear no fate(for you are my fate, my sweet)i want no world(for beautiful you are my world, my true) and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you here is the deepest secret nobody knows.
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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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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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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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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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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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Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: – you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
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The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.
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Well, write poetry, for God’s sake, it’s the only thing that matters.
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Progress is a comfortable disease.
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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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Twice I have lived forever in a smile.
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Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.
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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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