If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little – somebody who is obsessed by Making.
E. E. CUMMINGSSomeone asked me what home was and all I could think of were the stars on the tip of your tongue, the flowers sprouting from your mouth, the roots entwined in the gaps between your fingers, the ocean echoing inside of your ribcage.
More E. E. Cummings Quotes
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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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Great men burn bridges before they come to them.
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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.
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Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
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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.
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Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: – you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
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Love is the whole and more than all.
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You and I are more than you and I because it’s we.
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I do not know what it is about you that closes and opens; only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses.
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A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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And now you are and I am and we’re a mystery which will never happen again.
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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
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Here’s to opening and upward… and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughing.
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Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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The eyes of my eyes are opened.
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