The symbol of all art is the Prism. The goal is unrealism. The method is destructive. To break up the white light of objective realism, into the secret glories which it contains.
E. E. CUMMINGSKisses are a better fate than wisdom.
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As small as a world as large as alone.
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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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The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.
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The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches.
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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
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Your head is a living forest full of songbirds.
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Lovers alone wear sunlight.
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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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The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.
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I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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Time is a tree (this life one leaf) but love is the sky and i am for you just so long and long enough.
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We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
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Because you aren’t afraid to kiss the dirt (and consequently dare to climb the sky)
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The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying ‘anywhere but here’.
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To be nobody-but-yourself – in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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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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Existing’s tricky:but to live’s a gift.
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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 pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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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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Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.
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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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Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It’s always our self we find in the sea.
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You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
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