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It is with roses and locomotives that my poems are competing.

E. E. Cummings

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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Deep Happiness Life Live Nature Transformation Wisdom Young
America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.
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Brave Hell Mistake Nation Patriot
I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air Alive with closed eyes to dash against darkness.
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Alive Darkness Eyes Myself Sun
The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches.
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Change Nature Soft Touch
As small as a world as large as alone.
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Alone Deep Nature Reality Wonderful World
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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Deep Eyes Myself Rose Understand Voice
A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
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Exception Man Politics
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
Existing’s tricky:but to live’s a gift.
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Existence Gift Live Trick
And now you are and I am and we’re a mystery which will never happen again.
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Love Myself Mystery Yourself
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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Fear Hope Love Silence Stars Strength Strong Sun Voice
Remember one thing only: that it’s you-nobody else-who determines your destiny and decides your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.
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Alive Destiny Determination Inspirational Motivational Remember Yourself
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
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Believe Experience Human Reveal Risk Spirit Wonderful
One’s not half two. It’s two are halves of one.
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Deep Mathematics Oneself Wisdom
The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.
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Be Yourself Challenge Hard World Yourself
Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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Born Deep People Philosophy Thinking

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