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.
E. E. CUMMINGSI imagine that yes is the only living thing.
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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying ‘anywhere but here’.
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Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.
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I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
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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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Equality is what does not exist among mortals.
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Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.
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You and I are more than you and I because it’s we.
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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.
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The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches.
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Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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Do not hate or fear the artist in yourselves… Honor and love him do not try to possess him. Trust him as nobly as you trust tomorrow. Only the artist in yourself is more truthful than the night.
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