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.
E. E. CUMMINGSA 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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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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Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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Existing’s tricky:but to live’s a gift.
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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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Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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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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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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Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: – you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
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You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
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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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Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.
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The eyes of my eyes are opened.
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Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.
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Twice I have lived forever in a smile.
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