E. E. Cummings on alive
E. E. Cummings134 quotes“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.”
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Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.
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.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Tomorrow is our permanent address.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Progress is a comfortable disease.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Do not hate or fear the artist in yourselves… Honor and love him do not try to possess him. Trust him as nobly as you trust tomorrow. Only the artist in yourself is more truthful than the night.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings 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
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It’s a funny old world. A man’s lucky if he gets out of it alive.
W. C. FieldsW. C. Fields Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
Jesse JacksonJesse Jackson A lot of money is spent trying to keep people alive who don’t necessarily want to be alive.
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Jesse JacksonJesse Jackson Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
Jesse JacksonJesse Jackson When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it’s alive; then they have the parts and they’ve lost the whole, for the link that’s missing was the living soul.
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