Suppose Life is an old man carrying flowers on his head.
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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As small as a world as large as alone.
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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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Lovers alone wear sunlight.
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Love is the whole and more than all.
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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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A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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The hardest fight a man has to fight is to live in a world where every single day someone is trying to make you someone you do not want to be–
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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
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May my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living.
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Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear.
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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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Laughing is just another way of showing people your wise.
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Well, write poetry, for God’s sake, it’s the only thing that matters.
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