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Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.
E. E. CummingsE. 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.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Because you aren’t afraid to kiss the dirt (and consequently dare to climb the sky)
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Well, write poetry, for God’s sake, it’s the only thing that matters.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings And this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings 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.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Great men burn bridges before they come to them.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Nobody loses all the time.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings The voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air Alive with closed eyes to dash against darkness.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings You and I are more than you and I because it’s we.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings You and I are more than you and I because it’s we.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.
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