The eyes of my eyes are opened.
E. E. CUMMINGS
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The artist is not a man who describes, but a man who feels.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Sweet springtime is my time is your time is our time for springtime is love time and viva sweet love.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Your head is a living forest full of songbirds.
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E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings 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.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings 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.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. 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 Because you aren’t afraid to kiss the dirt (and consequently dare to climb the sky)
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Well, write poetry, for God’s sake, it’s the only thing that matters.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings And this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings To be nobody-but-yourself – in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
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