You shall above all things be glad and young For if you’re young, whatever life you wear it will become you; and if you are glad whatever’s living will yourself become.
E. E. CUMMINGSThe artist is not a man who describes, but a man who feels.
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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 eyes of my eyes are opened.
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Here’s to opening and upward… and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughing.
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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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For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It’s always our self we find in the sea.
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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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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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May my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living.
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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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Lovers alone wear sunlight.
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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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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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Well, write poetry, for God’s sake, it’s the only thing that matters.
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A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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