It is with roses and locomotives that my poems are competing.
E. E. CUMMINGSI will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air Alive with closed eyes to dash against darkness.
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The voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses.
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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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Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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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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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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One’s not half two. It’s two are halves of one.
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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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Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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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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I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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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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Only by you my heart always moves.
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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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Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
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