Well, write poetry, for God’s sake, it’s the only thing that matters.
E. E. CUMMINGSWe 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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I do not know what it is about you that closes and opens; only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses.
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You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
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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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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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I 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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You and I are more than you and I because it’s we.
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The voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses.
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Your head is a living forest full of songbirds.
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It is with roses and locomotives that my poems are competing.
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May my heart always be open to little birds, who are the secrets of living. Whatever they sing is better than to know. And if men should not hear them – then men are old.
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You 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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Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
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Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.
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