And the reason that i laugh and breathe is oh love.
E. E. CUMMINGSI’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
More E. E. Cummings Quotes
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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.
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You and I are more than you and I because it’s we.
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The hardest fight a man has to fight is to live in a world where every single day someone is trying to make you someone you do not want to be–
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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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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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As small as a world as large as alone.
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Only by you my heart always moves.
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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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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.
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Someone 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.
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A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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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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The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.
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I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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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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