If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little – somebody who is obsessed by Making.
E. E. CUMMINGSLovers alone wear sunlight.
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Great men burn bridges before they come to them.
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Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.
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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 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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The artist is not a man who describes, but a man who feels.
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The theory of the free press is not that the truth will be presented completely or perfectly in any one instance, but that the truth will emerge from free discussion.
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Only by you my heart always moves.
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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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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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Lovers alone wear sunlight.
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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You and I are more than you and I because it’s we.
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It is with roses and locomotives that my poems are competing.
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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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