E. E. Cummings on exception
E. E. Cummings134 quotes“A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.”
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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 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 To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Exists no miracle mightier than this: to feel.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings
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Everything without exception which is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.
Simone WeilSimone Weil The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton No one can degrade us except ourselves.
Booker T. WashingtonBooker T. Washington I never draw except with brush and paint.
Claude MonetClaude Monet There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
Cesare PaveseCesare Pavese It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.
Cesare PaveseCesare Pavese Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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