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. CUMMINGSAlways the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
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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.
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The artist is not a man who describes, but a man who feels.
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Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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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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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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Well, write poetry, for God’s sake, it’s the only thing that matters.
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Only by you my heart always moves.
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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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Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.
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May my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living.
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May my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living.
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The eyes of my eyes are opened.
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As small as a world as large as alone.
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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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