Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
E. E. CUMMINGSHere 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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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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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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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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You shall above all things be glad and young.
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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Time is a tree (this life one leaf) but love is the sky and i am for you just so long and long enough.
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Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.
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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’.
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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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Lovers alone wear sunlight.
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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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Here’s to opening and upward… and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughing.
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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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And the reason that i laugh and breathe is oh love.
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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