I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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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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I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
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The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.
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I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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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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Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.
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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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Existing’s tricky:but to live’s a gift.
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Nobody loses all the time.
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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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Sweet springtime is my time is your time is our time for springtime is love time and viva sweet love.
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Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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Here’s to opening and upward… and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughing.
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Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
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