The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.
E. E. CUMMINGSThe 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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One’s not half two. It’s two are halves of one.
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The hardest fight a man has to fight is to live in a world where every single day someone is trying to make you someone you do not want to be–
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If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little – somebody who is obsessed by Making.
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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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May my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living.
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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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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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The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.
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The voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses.
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The eyes of my eyes are opened.
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May my heart always be open to little birds, who are the secrets of living. Whatever they sing is better than to know. And if men should not hear them – then men are old.
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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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Existing’s tricky:but to live’s a gift.
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Laughing is just another way of showing people your wise.
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We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
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