Remember one thing only: that it’s you-nobody else-who determines your destiny and decides your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.
E. E. CUMMINGSTake the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air Alive with closed eyes to dash against darkness.
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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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The voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses.
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A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
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Love is the whole and more than all.
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Love is the whole and more than all.
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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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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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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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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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You shall above all things be glad and young For if you’re young, whatever life you wear it will become you; and if you are glad whatever’s living will yourself become.
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Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
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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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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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