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Nobody loses all the time.

E. E. Cummings

Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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Born Deep People Philosophy Thinking
I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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Bird Choice Dance Learning Myself Sing Stars Teaching
Laughing is just another way of showing people your wise.
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Laughter People Wisdom Yourself
Suppose Life is an old man carrying flowers on his head.
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Carry Flower Head Life Man Old
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
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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Creation Obsession Poet Writing
As small as a world as large as alone.
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Alone Deep Nature Reality Wonderful World
Somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond.
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Beyond Happiness Myself Travel
Exists no miracle mightier than this: to feel.
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Existence Feeling Magic
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.
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Brave Hell Mistake Nation Patriot
You have played, (I think) And broke the toys you were fondest of, And are a little tired now; Tired of things that break, and— Just tired. So am I.
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Break Myself Play Thinking Toy
The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches.
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Change Nature Soft Touch
An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects.
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Fight Intelligence Lost Person
The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.
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Artist Himself Learning Order
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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Courage Grow Up Yourself
Because you aren’t afraid to kiss the dirt (and consequently dare to climb the sky)
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Afraid Dare Kiss Sky

Nobody loses all the time.

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