To destroy is always the first step in any creation.

Quote by E E Cummings

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Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy...

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy...

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America...

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America...

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you...

To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you...

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of...

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of...

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars...

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars...

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience...

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience...

Be of love (a little) more careful than of anything.

Be of love (a little) more careful than of anything.

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be...

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be...

To be nobody but yourself in a world doing its best to make you everybody...

To be nobody but yourself in a world doing its best to make you everybody...

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time...

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time...

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little...

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little...

I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars...

I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars...