An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects.
E. E. CUMMINGSYou 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 three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying ‘anywhere but here’.
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I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
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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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For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It’s always our self we find in the sea.
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Do not hate or fear the artist in yourselves… Honor and love him do not try to possess him. Trust him as nobly as you trust tomorrow. Only the artist in yourself is more truthful than the night.
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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The voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses.
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Here’s to opening and upward… and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughing.
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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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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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Equality is what does not exist among mortals.
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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 pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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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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