I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGSKisses are a better fate than wisdom.
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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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Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
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As small as a world as large as alone.
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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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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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Love is the whole and more than all.
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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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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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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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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
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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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May my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living.
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You shall above all things be glad and young.
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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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