E. E. Cummings on bird
E. E. Cummings134 quotes“I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.”
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Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings 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
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Tame birds sing of freedom. Wild birds fly.
John LennonJohn Lennon Your thoughts are as free as any bird.
Michael JacksonMichael Jackson It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
Muhammad AliMuhammad Ali We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.
Martin Luther King JrMartin Luther King Jr Gliders, sail planes, they’re wonderful flying machines. It’s the closest you can come to being a bird.
Neil ArmstrongNeil Armstrong I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.
RumiRumi As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
John MuirJohn Muir The birds of night peck at the first stars that flash like my soul when I love you.
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