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  • Richard Siken
    "Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us. / These, our bodies, possessed by light. / Tell me we'll never get used to it."
    Richard Siken (Crush)


  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    "Goodbye, said the fox. And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye."
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)


  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    "People where you live," the little prince said, "grow five thousand roses in one garden... yet they don't find what they're looking for...

    "They don't find it," I answered.

    "And yet what they're looking for could be found in a single rose, or a little water..."

    "Of course," I answered.

    And the little prince added, "But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart." "
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)


  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    "'I am looking for friends. What does that mean -- tame?'

    'It is an act too often neglected,' said the fox. 'It means to establish ties.'

    'To establish ties?'

    'Just that,' said the fox. 'To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world...'"
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Le Petit Prince)


  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    "The proof that the little prince existed is that he was charming, that he laughed, and that he was looking for a sheep. If anybody wants a sheep, that is a proof that he exists."
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)


  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    "On ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux."
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry


  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    "I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings." -from the Fox-"
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)


  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    "'You are not at all like my rose,' he said. 'As yet you are nothing. No one has tamed you, and you have tamed no one. You are like my fox when I first knew him. He was only a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But I have made him my friend, and now he is unique in all the world.'

    And the roses were very much embarrassed.

    'You are beautiful, but you are empty,' he went on. 'One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you — the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered; because it is she that I have put under the glass globe; because it is she that I have sheltered behind the screen; because it is for her that I have killed the caterpillars (except the two or three that we saved to become butterflies); because it is she that I have listened to, when she grumbled, or boasted, or ever sometimes when she said nothing. Because she is my rose.'"
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)


  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    "You see, one loves the sunset when one is so sad."
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Le Petit Prince)


  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    ""I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me...""
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)


  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    "You become responsible forever for what you have tamed."
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)


  • e.e. cummings
    "It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."
    e.e. cummings


  • e.e. cummings
    "i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart)i am never without it (anywhere
    i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling)
    i fear no fate (for you are my fate,my sweet)i want no world (for beautiful you are my world,my true)
    and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you

    here 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)"
    e.e. cummings


  • e.e. cummings
    "To be nobody but
    yourself in a world
    which is doing its best day and night to make you like
    everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
    which any human being can fight and never stop fighting."
    e.e. cummings


  • e.e. cummings
    "the earth laughs in flowers."
    e.e. cummings


  • e.e. cummings
    "nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
    the power of your intense fragility:whose texture
    compels me with the colour of its countries,
    rendering death and forever with each breathing

    (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)
    nobody,not even the rain, has such small hands

    -excerpt of #35 from "100 Selected Poems"
    e.e. cummings


  • e.e. cummings
    "...life's not a paragraph
    And death i think is no parenthesis"
    e.e. cummings


  • e.e. cummings
    "since feeling is first
    who pays any attention
    to the syntax of things
    will never wholly kiss you;

    wholly to be a fool
    while Spring is in the world

    my blood approves,
    and kisses are a far better fate
    than wisdom
    lady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry
    --the best gesture of my brain is less than
    your eyelids' flutter which says

    we are for eachother: then
    laugh, leaning back in my arms
    for life's not a paragraph

    And death i think is no parenthesis"
    e.e. cummings


  • e.e. cummings
    "I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more."
    e.e. cummings


  • e.e. cummings
    "may i feel said he
    (i'll squeal said she
    just once said he)
    it's fun said she

    (may i touch said he
    how much said she
    a lot said he)
    why not said she

    (let's go said he
    not too far said she
    what's too far said he
    where you are said she)

    may i stay said he
    (which way said she
    like this said he
    if you kiss said she

    may i move said he
    is it love said she)
    if you're willing said he
    (but you're killing said she

    but it's life said he
    but your wife said she
    now said he)
    ow said she

    (tiptop said he
    don't stop said she
    oh no said he)
    go slow said she

    (cccome?said he
    ummm said she)
    you're divine!said he
    (you are Mine said she)"
    e.e. cummings


  • e.e. cummings
    "Such was a poet and shall be and is
    -who'll solve the depths of horror to defend a sunbeam's architecture with his life: and carve immortal jungles of despair to hold a mountain's heartbeat in his hand."
    e.e. cummings


  • e.e. cummings
    "Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question."
    e.e. cummings


  • e.e. cummings
    "most people are perfectly afraid of silence"
    e.e. cummings


  • e.e. cummings
    "Now the ears of my ears are awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened."
    e.e. cummings


  • e.e. cummings
    "Buffalo Bill's
    defunct
    who used to
    ride a watersmooth-silver
    stallion
    and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat
    Jesus
    he was a handsome man
    and what i want to know is
    how do you like your blueeyed boy
    Mister Death"
    e.e. cummings


  • e.e. cummings
    "Here's to opening and upward...
    and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughing."
    e.e. cummings


  • e.e. cummings
    "i am a little church(no great cathedral)
    far from the splendor and squalor of hurrying cities
    --i do not worry if briefer days grow briefest,
    i am not sorry when sun and rain make april

    my life is the life of the reaper and the sower;
    my prayers are prayers of earth's own clumsily striving
    (finding and losing and laughing and crying)children
    whose any sadness or joy is my grief or my gladness

    around me surges a miracle of unceasing
    birth and glory and death and resurrection:
    over my sleeping self float flaming symbols
    of hope,and i wake to a perfect patience of mountains

    i am a little church(far from the frantic
    world with its rapture and anguish)at peace with nature
    --i do not worry if longer nights grow longest;
    i am not sorry when silence becomes singing

    winter by spring,i lift my diminutive spire to
    merciful Him Whose only now is forever:
    standing erect in the deathless truth of His presence
    (welcoming humbly His light and proudly His darkness)"
    e.e. cummings


  • e.e. cummings
    "I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air."
    e.e. cummings


  • Allen Ginsberg
    "Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness."
    Allen Ginsberg


  • Allen Ginsberg
    "Everybody's serious but me."
    Allen Ginsberg


  • Allen Ginsberg
    "I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view. "
    Allen Ginsberg


  • Allen Ginsberg
    "Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening."
    Allen Ginsberg


  • Franz Kafka
    "A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die."
    Franz Kafka


  • Franz Kafka
    "I am free and that is why I am lost."
    Franz Kafka


  • Franz Kafka
    "Paths are made by walking"
    Franz Kafka


  • Franz Kafka
    "Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life."
    Franz Kafka


  • Franz Kafka
    "I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy."
    Franz Kafka


  • Franz Kafka
    "I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness."
    Franz Kafka


  • Franz Kafka
    "We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes."
    Franz Kafka


  • Franz Kafka
    "It receives you when you come and dismisses you when you go."
    Franz Kafka


  • Franz Kafka
    "Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come."
    Franz Kafka (Diaries of Franz Kafka 1914-1923)


  • Franz Kafka
    "Life’s splendor forever lies in wait about each of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come."
    Franz Kafka


  • Franz Kafka
    "First impressions are always unreliable."
    Franz Kafka


  • Franz Kafka
    "From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached."
    Franz Kafka (The Trial)


  • Albert Camus
    "You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."
    Albert Camus


  • Albert Camus
    "You can't create experience, you undergo it."
    Albert Camus


  • Albert Camus
    "I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world."
    Albert Camus (L'etranger)


  • Markus Zusak
    "Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of."
    Markus Zusak (I Am the Messenger)


  • Ayn Rand
    "I think, therefore I'll think."
    Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged)


  • Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
    "When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago."
    Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche



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