Here’s to opening and upward… and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughing.
E. E. CUMMINGSFor whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It’s always our self we find in the sea.
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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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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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Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: – you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
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You and I are more than you and I because it’s we.
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Love is the whole and more than all.
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Lovers alone wear sunlight.
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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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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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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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You shall above all things be glad and young.
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Great men burn bridges before they come to them.
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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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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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A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.
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