Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGSThe artist is not a man who describes, but a man who feels.
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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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Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: – you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
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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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One’s not half two. It’s two are halves of one.
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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
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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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You shall above all things be glad and young.
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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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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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You and I are more than you and I because it’s we.
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I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
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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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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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I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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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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