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.
E. E. CUMMINGSMost people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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The eyes of my eyes are opened.
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The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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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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I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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Exists no miracle mightier than this: to feel.
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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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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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Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
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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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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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Twice I have lived forever in a smile.
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Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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You shall above all things be glad and young.
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And now you are and I am and we’re a mystery which will never happen again.
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