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.
E. E. CUMMINGSNotice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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The theory of the free press is not that the truth will be presented completely or perfectly in any one instance, but that the truth will emerge from free discussion.
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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.
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Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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And now you are and I am and we’re a mystery which will never happen again.
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The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.
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Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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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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Great men burn bridges before they come to them.
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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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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 voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses.
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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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