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The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.

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
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
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Believe Experience Human Reveal Risk Spirit Wonderful
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.
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Alive Destiny Determination Inspirational Motivational Remember Yourself
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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Alive Darkness Eyes Myself Sun
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
To be nobody-but-yourself – in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
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Battle Be Yourself Best Deep Fight Hard Human Love Night Self Stop Wisdom World
The eyes of my eyes are opened.
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Deep Eyes Myself One Liner Open
A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
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Exception Man Politics
Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear.
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Fear Hope Love Silence Voice
Nobody loses all the time.
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Hope Inspirational Lose One Liner Time
Love is the whole and more than all.
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Love One Liner
Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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Afraid People Silence
To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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Creation Deep Destroy Wisdom
The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches.
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Change Nature Soft Touch
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
Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
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Beautiful Question

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