The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying ‘anywhere but here’.
E. E. CUMMINGSIf a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little – somebody who is obsessed by Making.
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Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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You and I are more than you and I because it’s we.
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Lovers alone wear sunlight.
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Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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As small as a world as large as alone.
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Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
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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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Love is the whole and more than all.
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Do not hate or fear the artist in yourselves… Honor and love him do not try to possess him. Trust him as nobly as you trust tomorrow. Only the artist in yourself is more truthful than the night.
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You and I are more than you and I because it’s we.
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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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You and I are more than you and I because it’s we.
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Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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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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Suppose Life is an old man carrying flowers on his head.
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