Antoine de Saint Exupéry

1900 - 1944
writer, poet and aviator

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. - antoine de saint-exupery

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded. -antoine de saint-exupery

I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind. -antoine de saint-exupery

"Here is my secret. It is very simple. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; What is essential is invisible to the eye." - Antoine de Saint Exupéry

"Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them." - Antoine de Saint Exupéry

e.e. cummings

1894-1962
painter & poet (peintre et poete)

"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."

"If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making."

"I imagine that yes is the only living thing."

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 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

susan sontag

1933-2004
writer, essayist, literary theorist, activist, critic, public intellectual

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caetano veloso

brazilian (genius) songwriter,composer, singer, guitarist, performer, activist

this is painfully incredible (thanks p. klein)



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jean cocteau

5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963
french, avant-garde film-maker, artist, playwright, director, publisher, designer, poet, novelist

"Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live."
--Jean Cocteau

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