Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.
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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Here’s to opening and upward… and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughing.
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Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
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Your head is a living forest full of songbirds.
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Exists no miracle mightier than this: to feel.
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Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
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Because you aren’t afraid to kiss the dirt (and consequently dare to climb the sky)
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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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Suppose Life is an old man carrying flowers on his head.
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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
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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.
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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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An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects.
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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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One’s not half two. It’s two are halves of one.
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