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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?

E. E. Cummings

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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Fingers Flower Home Ocean Stars Thinking Tongue
And this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)
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Carry Heart Myself Stars Wonder
Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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Afraid People Silence
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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Brave Hell Mistake Nation Patriot
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
As small as a world as large as alone.
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Alone Deep Nature Reality Wonderful World
Do not hate or fear the artist in yourselves… Honor and love him do not try to possess him. Trust him as nobly as you trust tomorrow. Only the artist in yourself is more truthful than the night.
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Artist Hate Love Night Trust
Lovers alone wear sunlight.
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Alone Deep Love One Liner Sun
Existing’s tricky:but to live’s a gift.
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Existence Gift Live Trick
I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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Choice Friendship Goodness Myself Worth
Well, write poetry, for God’s sake, it’s the only thing that matters.
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Art God Poetry Writing
We can never be born enough.
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Born Enough One Liner Satisfaction
A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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Appearance Beautiful Pretty Woman Worth
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
Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.
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Goodness Let Go Listening Universe
The hardest fight a man has to fight is to live in a world where every single day someone is trying to make you someone you do not want to be–
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Fight Hard Live Man Try World Yourself

Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?

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