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. CUMMINGSNobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.
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Twice I have lived forever in a smile.
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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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Progress is a comfortable disease.
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Existing’s tricky:but to live’s a gift.
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A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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The eyes of my eyes are opened.
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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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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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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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We can never be born enough.
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Exists no miracle mightier than this: to feel.
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Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.
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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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I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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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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