Well, write poetry, for God’s sake, it’s the only thing that matters.
E. E. CUMMINGSTake the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
More E. E. Cummings Quotes
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Love is the whole and more than all.
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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 eyes of my eyes are opened.
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Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
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Here’s to opening and upward… and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughing.
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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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Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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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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The artist is not a man who describes, but a man who feels.
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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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An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects.
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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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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.
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Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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Great men burn bridges before they come to them.
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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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The eyes of my eyes are opened.
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Remember one thing only: that it’s you-nobody else-who determines your destiny and decides your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.
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Love is the whole and more than all.
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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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Existing’s tricky:but to live’s a gift.
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Tomorrow is our permanent address.
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The eyes of my eyes are opened.
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Equality is what does not exist among mortals.
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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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Progress is a comfortable disease.
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