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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

E. E. Cummings

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
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
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Day Laughter Oneself Wasted Time
You shall above all things be glad and young.
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Young Yourself
Tomorrow is our permanent address.
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Address Ourselves
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
The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches.
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Change Nature Soft Touch
Existing’s tricky:but to live’s a gift.
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Existence Gift Live Trick
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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Believe Experience Human Listening Ourselves Reveal Risk Spirit Touch Trust Value Wonderful Worth
The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.
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Artist Himself Learning Order
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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Brave Hell Mistake Nation Patriot
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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Courage Grow Up Yourself
Equality is what does not exist among mortals.
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Equality Existence Mortal
The eyes of my eyes are opened.
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Deep Eyes Myself One Liner Open
I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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Bird Choice Dance Learning Myself Sing Stars Teaching
I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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Choice Friendship Goodness Myself Worth
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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Enough Life Sky Time Tree Yourself
You have played, (I think) And broke the toys you were fondest of, And are a little tired now; Tired of things that break, and— Just tired. So am I.
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Break Myself Play Thinking Toy
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
A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
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Exception Man Politics
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
Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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Born Deep People Philosophy Thinking
May my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living.
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Heart Live Myself Open Secret
Great men burn bridges before they come to them.
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Burn Greatness Man
Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.
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Alive Yourself
It is with roses and locomotives that my poems are competing.
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Competition Myself Poem Rose
To be nobody-but-yourself – in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
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Battle Be Yourself Best Deep Fight Hard Human Love Night Self Stop Wisdom World
I do not know what it is about you that closes and opens; only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses.
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Deep Eyes Myself Rose Understand Voice

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

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