I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
E. E. CUMMINGSHere’s to opening and upward… and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughing.
More E. E. Cummings Quotes
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Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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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.
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Somewhere i have never traveled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence; in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near.
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Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you’re a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you’re nobody-but-yourself.
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Laughing is just another way of showing people your wise.
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The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying ‘anywhere but here’.
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The voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses.
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I love you much most beautiful darling more than anyone on the earth and I like you better than everything in the sky.
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The artist is not a man who describes, but a man who feels.
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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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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It’s always our self we find in the sea.
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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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America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.
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