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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

A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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Appearance Beautiful Pretty Woman Worth
We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. 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 Listening Ourselves Reveal Risk Spirit Touch Trust Value Wonderful Worth
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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Courage Grow Up Yourself
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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Deep Eyes Myself Rose Understand Voice
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
Twice I have lived forever in a smile.
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Forever Live Myself Smile True Love
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
Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
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Better Fate Kiss Wisdom
Well, write poetry, for God’s sake, it’s the only thing that matters.
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Art God Poetry Writing
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
It is with roses and locomotives that my poems are competing.
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Competition Myself Poem Rose
Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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Appearance Minute Moon
The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.
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Be Yourself Challenge Hard World Yourself
Here’s to opening and upward… and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughing.
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Laughter Open Yourself
I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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Choice Friendship Goodness Myself Worth
To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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Creation Deep Destroy Wisdom

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