E. E. Cummings on courage
E. E. Cummings134 quotes“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
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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.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings The eyes of my eyes are opened.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings 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.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings The eyes of my eyes are opened.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings 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.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Lovers alone wear sunlight.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings And now you are and I am and we’re a mystery which will never happen again.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings 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.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Lovers alone wear sunlight.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: – you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Existing’s tricky:but to live’s a gift.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings
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