I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGSYour head is a living forest full of songbirds.
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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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Remember one thing only: that it’s you-nobody else-who determines your destiny and decides your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.
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Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you’re a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you’re nobody-but-yourself.
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Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
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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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An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects.
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Somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond.
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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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And now you are and I am and we’re a mystery which will never happen again.
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I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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Twice I have lived forever in a smile.
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Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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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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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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The eyes of my eyes are opened.
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Existing’s tricky:but to live’s a gift.
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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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Love is the whole and more than all.
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The artist is not a man who describes, but a man who feels.
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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
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The eyes of my eyes are opened.
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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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A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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Someone asked me what home was and all I could think of were the stars on the tip of your tongue, the flowers sprouting from your mouth, the roots entwined in the gaps between your fingers, the ocean echoing inside of your ribcage.
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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