The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.
E. E. CUMMINGSAnd now you are and I am and we’re a mystery which will never happen again.
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A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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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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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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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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The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.
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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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Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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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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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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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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Exists no miracle mightier than this: to feel.
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You shall above all things be glad and young.
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The eyes of my eyes are opened.
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It is with roses and locomotives that my poems are competing.
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