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

E. E. Cummings

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
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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Enough Life Sky Time Tree Yourself
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 three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying ‘anywhere but here’.
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Health Money Place Poor Rich Sad Sick Travel
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
The eyes of my eyes are opened.
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Deep Eyes Myself One Liner Open
Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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Appearance Minute Moon
Because you aren’t afraid to kiss the dirt (and consequently dare to climb the sky)
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Afraid Dare Kiss Sky
The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility.
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Philosophy Possible Reality Wisdom Yourself
Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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Afraid People Silence
Lovers alone wear sunlight.
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Alone Deep Love One Liner Sun
Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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Born Deep People Philosophy Thinking
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
You shall above all things be glad and young.
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Young Yourself
Love is the whole and more than all.
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Love One Liner
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

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

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