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.
E. E. CUMMINGSNobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.
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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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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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The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility.
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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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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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The artist is not a man who describes, but a man who feels.
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Because you aren’t afraid to kiss the dirt (and consequently dare to climb the sky)
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May my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living.
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You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
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May my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living.
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Your head is a living forest full of songbirds.
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It is with roses and locomotives that my poems are competing.
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The eyes of my eyes are opened.
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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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We can never be born enough.
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