A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
E. E. CUMMINGSYou and I are more than you and I because it’s we.
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You and I are more than you and I because it’s we.
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I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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Great men burn bridges before they come to them.
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The artist is not a man who describes, but a man who feels.
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And the reason that i laugh and breathe is oh love.
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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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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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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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As small as a world as large as alone.
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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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Love is the whole and more than all.
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I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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May my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living.
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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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A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
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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 most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
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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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Well, write poetry, for God’s sake, it’s the only thing that matters.
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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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Existing’s tricky:but to live’s a gift.
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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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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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I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.
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