I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
E. E. CUMMINGSTake the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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Existing’s tricky:but to live’s a gift.
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The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches.
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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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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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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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Nobody loses all the time.
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I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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Sweet springtime is my time is your time is our time for springtime is love time and viva sweet love.
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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
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Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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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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Tomorrow is our permanent address.
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Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear.
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