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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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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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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The symbol of all art is the Prism. The goal is unrealism. The method is destructive. To break up the white light of objective realism, into the secret glories which it contains.
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An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects.
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We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
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Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
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I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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The eyes of my eyes are opened.
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I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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May my heart always be open to little birds, who are the secrets of living. Whatever they sing is better than to know. And if men should not hear them – then men are old.
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Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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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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I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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Nobody loses all the time.
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