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Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.

E. E. Cummings

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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Creation Obsession Poet Writing
Twice I have lived forever in a smile.
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Forever Live Myself Smile True Love
I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
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Imagination Live Myself One Liner
Time is a tree (this life one leaf) but love is the sky and i am for you just so long and long enough.
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Enough Life Sky Time Tree Yourself
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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Creation Existence Experience Movement Poet Possible
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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Deep Eyes Myself Rose Understand Voice
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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Beautiful Earth Love Sky
I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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Bird Choice Dance Learning Myself Sing Stars Teaching
Exists no miracle mightier than this: to feel.
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Existence Feeling Magic
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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Break Myself Play Thinking Toy
The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.
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Be Yourself Challenge Hard World Yourself
And now you are and I am and we’re a mystery which will never happen again.
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Love Myself Mystery Yourself
You shall above all things be glad and young.
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Young Yourself
May my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living.
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Heart Live Myself Open Secret
I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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Choice Friendship Goodness Myself Worth
Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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Appearance Minute Moon

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