Because you aren’t afraid to kiss the dirt (and consequently dare to climb the sky)
E. E. CUMMINGSOnce we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
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Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
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The artist is not a man who describes, but a man who feels.
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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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You shall above all things be glad and young.
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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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Great men burn bridges before they come to them.
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Here is the deepest secret nobody knows. Here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide. And this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)
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Nobody loses all the time.
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The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.
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I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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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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The voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses.
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Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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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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