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. CUMMINGSTo destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.
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A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
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Nobody loses all the time.
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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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Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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The artist is not a man who describes, but a man who feels.
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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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Because you aren’t afraid to kiss the dirt (and consequently dare to climb the sky)
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As small as a world as large as alone.
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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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Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.
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Time is a tree (this life one leaf) but love is the sky and i am for you just so long and long enough.
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Somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond.
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Love is the whole and more than all.
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