Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.
E. E. CUMMINGSLove 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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I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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You and I are more than you and I because it’s we.
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A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
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It is with roses and locomotives that my poems are competing.
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And this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)
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Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.
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Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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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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Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
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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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Great men burn bridges before they come to them.
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The theory of the free press is not that the truth will be presented completely or perfectly in any one instance, but that the truth will emerge from free discussion.
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Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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Suppose Life is an old man carrying flowers on his head.
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