E.e. Cummings

Quotes

• “Who can tell truth from falsehood any more?I say it, and you feel it in your hearts:no man or woman on this big small ea...”
• “We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, wort...”
• “Humanity i love you because youare perpetually putting the secret oflife in your pants and forgettingit's there and sitt...”
• “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: ...”
• “To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to figh...”
• “Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebl...”
• “...remember one thing only: that it's you-nobody else-who determines your destiny and decides your fate. Nobody else can...”
• “You have played, (I think) And broke the toys you were fondest of, And are a little tired now; Tired of things that brea...”
• “i do not know what it is about you that closesand opens;only something in me understandsthe voice of your eyes is deeper...”
• “a wind has blown the rain away & the sky away & all the leaves away, & the trees stand. i think i, too, have known autum...”
• “Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you're a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-...”
• “down with hell and heaven and all the religious fussinfinity pleased our parents one inch looks good to us”
• “Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.”
• “I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance”
• “Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.”
• “may came home with a smooth round stoneas small as a world and as large as alone.”
• “And now you are and I am and we're a mystery which will never happen again.”
• “listen: there’s a hellof a good universe next door; let’s go”
• “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
• “life's not a paragraphAnd death i think is no parenthesis”
• “Unless you love someone, nothing else makes sense.”
• “twice I have lived forever in a smile”
• “Unbeing dead isn't being alive.”
• “Lovers alone wear sunlight.”
• “I am an i poet.”