I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGSThe eyes of my eyes are opened.
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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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Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects.
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As small as a world as large as alone.
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Progress is a comfortable disease.
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Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.
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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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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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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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It is with roses and locomotives that my poems are competing.
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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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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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You and I are more than you and I because it’s we.
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Suppose Life is an old man carrying flowers on his head.
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Existing’s tricky:but to live’s a gift.
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