Someone asked me what home was and all I could think of were the stars on the tip of your tongue, the flowers sprouting from your mouth, the roots entwined in the gaps between your fingers, the ocean echoing inside of your ribcage.
E. E. CUMMINGS
E. E. CUMMINGS
E. E. Cummings on fingers
E. E. Cummings134 quotes“Someone asked me what home was and all I could think of were the stars on the tip of your tongue, the flowers sprouting from your mouth, the roots entwined in the gaps between your fingers, the ocean echoing inside of your ribcage.”
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E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: – you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Existing’s tricky:but to live’s a gift.
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E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Love is the whole and more than all.
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E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings As small as a world as large as alone.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Love is the whole and more than all.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings 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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