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Existing’s tricky:but to live’s a gift.

E. E. Cummings

To be nobody-but-yourself – in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
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Battle Be Yourself Best Deep Fight Hard Human Love Night Self Stop Wisdom World
Here is the deepest secret nobody knows. Here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide. 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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Deep Growth Hope Life Love Mindset Myself Relationship Secret Sky Soul Tree
Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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Appearance Minute Moon
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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Fingers Flower Home Ocean Stars Thinking Tongue
It is with roses and locomotives that my poems are competing.
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Competition Myself Poem Rose
Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear.
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Fear Hope Love Silence Voice
Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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Afraid People Silence
Love is the whole and more than all.
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Love One Liner
I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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Bird Choice Dance Learning Myself Sing Stars Teaching
I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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Bird Choice Dance Learning Myself Sing Stars Teaching
Because you aren’t afraid to kiss the dirt (and consequently dare to climb the sky)
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Afraid Dare Kiss Sky
Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: – you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
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Born Light Moon Myself Spirit Stars Sun
Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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Afraid People Silence
Here’s to opening and upward… and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughing.
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Laughter Open Yourself
Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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Appearance Minute Moon
A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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Appearance Beautiful Pretty Woman Worth

Existing’s tricky:but to live’s a gift.

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