Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
E. E. CUMMINGSYou 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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The eyes of my eyes are opened.
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Exists no miracle mightier than this: to feel.
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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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Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.
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You and I are more than you and I because it’s we.
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Someone asked me what home was and all I could think of were the stars on the tip of your tongue, the flowers sprouting from your mouth, the roots entwined in the gaps between your fingers, the ocean echoing inside of your ribcage.
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I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
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Love is the whole and more than all.
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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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I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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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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And the reason that i laugh and breathe is oh love.
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We can never be born enough.
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I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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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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Lovers alone wear sunlight.
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One’s not half two. It’s two are halves of one.
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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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Existing’s tricky:but to live’s a gift.
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Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: – you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
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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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Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: – you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
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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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I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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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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