May my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living.
E. E. CUMMINGSTake the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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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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You and I are more than you and I because it’s we.
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Lovers alone wear sunlight.
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Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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Exists no miracle mightier than this: to feel.
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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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Your head is a living forest full of songbirds.
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
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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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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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Here’s to opening and upward… and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughing.
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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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An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects.
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