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Exists no miracle mightier than this: to feel.

E. E. Cummings

You have played, (I think) And broke the toys you were fondest of, And are a little tired now; Tired of things that break, and— Just tired. So am I.
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Break Myself Play Thinking Toy
Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.
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Fire Heart Love Sea Stars Trust Walk Yourself
Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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Appearance Minute Moon
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
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
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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Artist Hate Love Night Trust
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
Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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Afraid People Silence
The eyes of my eyes are opened.
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Deep Eyes Myself One Liner Open
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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Courage Grow Up Yourself
Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear.
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Fear Hope Love Silence Voice
As small as a world as large as alone.
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Alone Deep Nature Reality Wonderful World
The theory of the free press is not that the truth will be presented completely or perfectly in any one instance, but that the truth will emerge from free discussion.
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Born Freedom Perfection Present Theory Truth
An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects.
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Fight Intelligence Lost Person
As small as a world as large as alone.
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Alone Deep Nature Reality Wonderful World
I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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Bird Choice Dance Learning Myself Sing Stars Teaching

Exists no miracle mightier than this: to feel.

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