The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.
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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May my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living.
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Only by you my heart always moves.
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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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The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches.
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I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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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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Somewhere i have never traveled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence; in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near.
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Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
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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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You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
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A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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And the reason that i laugh and breathe is oh love.
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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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