Existing’s tricky:but to live’s a gift.
E. E. CUMMINGS
E. E. CUMMINGS
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I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings We can never be born enough.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings You have played, (I think) And broke the toys you were fondest of, And are a little tired now; Tired of things that break, and— Just tired. So am I.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Twice I have lived forever in a smile.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Laughing is just another way of showing people your wise.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings The theory of the free press is not that the truth will be presented completely or perfectly in any one instance, but that the truth will emerge from free discussion.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings A poet is someone who is abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement. Which is to say the highest form of concentration possible: fascination; to report on the electrifying experience of being.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Remember one thing only: that it’s you-nobody else-who determines your destiny and decides your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings The artist is not a man who describes, but a man who feels.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Sweet springtime is my time is your time is our time for springtime is love time and viva sweet love.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Your head is a living forest full of songbirds.
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