Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
E. E. CUMMINGSDo 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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You shall above all things be glad and young.
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I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
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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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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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Great men burn bridges before they come to them.
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Love is the whole and more than all.
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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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Here’s to opening and upward… and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughing.
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Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
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The eyes of my eyes are opened.
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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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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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Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.
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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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