E. E. Cummings on bird
E. E. Cummings134 quotes“I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.”
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Lovers alone wear sunlight.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings And now you are and I am and we’re a mystery which will never happen again.
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.
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.
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 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 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.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings
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No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.
Bob DylanBob Dylan Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
Langston HughesLangston Hughes [As a young man ] I came to the conclusion that the church was just a bunch of fascists that supported Franco. I stopped going on Sunday mornings and watched the birds with my father instead.
James WatsonJames Watson If you lose an opportunity you will be like one who lets the bird fly away; you will never get it back.
John of the CrossJohn of the Cross Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.
Miguel de CervantesMiguel de Cervantes You can put wings on a pig, but you don’t make it an eagle.
Bill ClintonBill Clinton It was terribly beautiful to Tess today, for since her eyes last fell upon it she had learnt that the serpent hisses where the sweet birds sing.
Thomas HardyThomas Hardy You can cage the songbird, but you can’t make her sing. And you can trap the free bird, but you’ll have to clip her wings.
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