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Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.

E. E. Cummings

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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Fingers Flower Home Ocean Stars Thinking Tongue
The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility.
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Philosophy Possible Reality Wisdom Yourself
For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It’s always our self we find in the sea.
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Break Up Deep End Lose Myself Sea Yourself
An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects.
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Fight Intelligence Lost Person
Here’s to opening and upward… and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughing.
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Laughter Open Yourself
Somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond.
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Beyond Happiness Myself Travel
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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Carry Heart Myself Stars Wonder
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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Brave Hell Mistake Nation Patriot
Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.
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Alive Death Deep One Liner
And now you are and I am and we’re a mystery which will never happen again.
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Love Myself Mystery Yourself
Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: – you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
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Born Light Moon Myself Spirit Stars Sun
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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Fingers Flower Home Ocean Stars Thinking Tongue
The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.
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Artist Himself Learning Order
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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Deep Eyes Myself Rose Understand Voice
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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Creation Existence Experience Movement Poet Possible
It is with roses and locomotives that my poems are competing.
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Competition Myself Poem Rose
Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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Born Deep People Philosophy Thinking
The eyes of my eyes are opened.
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Deep Eyes Myself One Liner Open
Existing’s tricky:but to live’s a gift.
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Existence Gift Live Trick
Lovers alone wear sunlight.
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Alone Deep Love One Liner Sun
The artist is not a man who describes, but a man who feels.
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Artist Description Difference Feeling Man
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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Believe Feeling Moments People Thinking Yourself
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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Brave Hell Mistake Nation Patriot
A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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Appearance Beautiful Pretty Woman Worth
Great men burn bridges before they come to them.
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Burn Greatness Man
Laughing is just another way of showing people your wise.
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Laughter People Wisdom Yourself
Progress is a comfortable disease.
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Comfortable One Liner Progress Sick

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