If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little – somebody who is obsessed by Making.
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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Because you aren’t afraid to kiss the dirt (and consequently dare to climb the sky)
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Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.
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Lovers alone wear sunlight.
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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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And now you are and I am and we’re a mystery which will never happen again.
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Tomorrow is our permanent address.
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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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May my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living.
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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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The eyes of my eyes are opened.
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Existing’s tricky:but to live’s a gift.
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A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
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An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects.
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