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May my heart always be open to little birds, who are the secrets of living. Whatever they sing is better than to know. And if men should not hear them – then men are old.

E. E. Cummings

I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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Choice Friendship Goodness Myself Worth
It is with roses and locomotives that my poems are competing.
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Competition Myself Poem Rose
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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Creation Existence Experience Movement Poet Possible
The theory of the free press is not that the truth will be presented completely or perfectly in any one instance, but that the truth will emerge from free discussion.
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Born Freedom Perfection Present Theory Truth
You and I are more than you and I because it’s we.
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Deep Love Myself Relationship Yourself
Here’s to opening and upward… and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughing.
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Laughter Open Yourself
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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Fight Hard Live Man Try World Yourself
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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Fingers Flower Home Ocean Stars Thinking Tongue
Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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Afraid People Silence
Somewhere i have never traveled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence; in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near.
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Beyond Experience Eyes Happiness Myself Silence Touch Travel
I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
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Imagination Live Myself One Liner
Well, write poetry, for God’s sake, it’s the only thing that matters.
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Art God Poetry Writing
Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: – you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
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Born Light Moon Myself Spirit Stars Sun
I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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Choice Friendship Goodness Myself Worth
Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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Appearance Minute Moon
Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
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Beautiful Question

May my heart always be open to little birds, who are the secrets of living. Whatever they sing is better than to know. And if men should not hear them – then men are old.

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