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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.

E. E. Cummings

Well, write poetry, for God’s sake, it’s the only thing that matters.
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Art God Poetry Writing
I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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Choice Friendship Goodness Myself Worth
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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Deep Eyes Myself Rose Understand Voice
I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
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Imagination Live Myself One Liner
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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Creation Existence Experience Movement Poet Possible
The artist is not a man who describes, but a man who feels.
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Artist Description Difference Feeling Man
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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Dreams Forever God Nature Sky Spirit Thankful Tree
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
The eyes of my eyes are opened.
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Deep Eyes Myself One Liner Open
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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Courage Grow Up Yourself
You and I are more than you and I because it’s we.
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Deep Love Myself Relationship Yourself
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
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
Somewhere i have never traveled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence; in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near.
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Beyond Experience Eyes Happiness Myself Silence Touch Travel
One’s not half two. It’s two are halves of one.
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Deep Mathematics Oneself Wisdom
Your head is a living forest full of songbirds.
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Bird Head Live Song

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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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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