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.
E. E. CUMMINGSA pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.
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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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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.
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A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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May my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living.
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A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
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Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
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May my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living.
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You have played, (I think) And broke the toys you were fondest of, And are a little tired now; Tired of things that break, and— Just tired. So am I.
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Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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Lovers alone wear sunlight.
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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 love you much most beautiful darling more than anyone on the earth and I like you better than everything in the sky.
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As small as a world as large as alone.
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The eyes of my eyes are opened.
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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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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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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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A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
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Well, write poetry, for God’s sake, it’s the only thing that matters.
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Nobody loses all the time.
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Only by you my heart always moves.
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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
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