To be nobody-but-yourself – in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
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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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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Lovers alone wear sunlight.
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For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It’s always our self we find in the sea.
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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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Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.
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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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One’s not half two. It’s two are halves of one.
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Here’s to opening and upward… and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughing.
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We can never be born enough.
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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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Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
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Your head is a living forest full of songbirds.
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You shall above all things be glad and young.
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Tomorrow is our permanent address.
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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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