Edward Estlin Cummings (1894-1962)
E. E. Cummings was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. He wrote approximately 2,900 poems, two autobiographical novels, four plays, and several essays. (E. E. Cummings Quotes)
“A wind has blown the rain away & the sky away & all the leaves away, & the trees stand. I think I, too, have known autumn too long.”
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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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“I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.”
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“I love you much most beautiful darling more than anyone on the earth and I like you better than everything in the sky.”
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“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
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“Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.”
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“She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still”
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“The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches.”
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“The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying ‘anywhere but here’.”
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“The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.” (E. E. Cummings Quotes)
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“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.”
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“Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.”
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“Unless you love someone, nothing else makes sense.”
E. E. Cummings
“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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“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-yourself.”
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“Your head is a living forest full of songbirds.”
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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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