E. E. Cummings on love
E. E. Cummings134 quotes“And now you are and I am and we’re a mystery which will never happen again.”
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Here is the deepest secret nobody knows. Here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide. 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 Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little – somebody who is obsessed by Making.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings And the reason that i laugh and breathe is oh love.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings You shall above all things be glad and young For if you’re young, whatever life you wear it will become you; and if you are glad whatever’s living will yourself become.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Time is a tree (this life one leaf) but love is the sky and i am for you just so long and long enough.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings The symbol of all art is the Prism. The goal is unrealism. The method is destructive. To break up the white light of objective realism, into the secret glories which it contains.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings One’s not half two. It’s two are halves of one.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings It is with roses and locomotives that my poems are competing.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings
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