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.
E. E. CUMMINGSAnd the reason that i laugh and breathe is oh love.
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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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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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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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Nobody loses all the time.
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Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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Sweet springtime is my time is your time is our time for springtime is love time and viva sweet love.
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A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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Your head is a living forest full of songbirds.
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Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
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Suppose Life is an old man carrying flowers on his head.
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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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Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: – you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
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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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