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. CUMMINGSYou and I are more than you and I because it’s we.
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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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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Tomorrow is our permanent address.
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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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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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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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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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Your head is a living forest full of songbirds.
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Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.
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We can never be born enough.
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Suppose Life is an old man carrying flowers on his head.
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You and I are more than you and I because it’s we.
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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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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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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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