I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGSTake the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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We can never be born enough.
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The artist is not a man who describes, but a man who feels.
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Love is the whole and more than all.
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A poet is someone who is abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement. Which is to say the highest form of concentration possible: fascination; to report on the electrifying experience of being.
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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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The voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses.
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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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The eyes of my eyes are opened.
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Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: – you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
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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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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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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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Here is the deepest secret nobody knows. Here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide. 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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I fear no fate(for you are my fate, my sweet)i want no world(for beautiful you are my world, my true) and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you here is the deepest secret nobody knows.
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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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