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. CUMMINGSWell, write poetry, for God’s sake, it’s the only thing that matters.
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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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Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.
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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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Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.
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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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Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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The hardest fight a man has to fight is to live in a world where every single day someone is trying to make you someone you do not want to be–
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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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The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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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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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
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Sweet springtime is my time is your time is our time for springtime is love time and viva sweet love.
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Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
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