Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGSAn intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects.
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Lovers alone wear sunlight.
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Suppose Life is an old man carrying flowers on his head.
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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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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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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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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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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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Only by you my heart always moves.
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Nobody loses all the time.
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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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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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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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I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
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The eyes of my eyes are opened.
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