The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.
E. E. CUMMINGSThe artist is not a man who describes, but a man who feels.
More E. E. Cummings Quotes
-
-
Twice I have lived forever in a smile.
E. E. CUMMINGS -
Lovers alone wear sunlight.
E. E. CUMMINGS -
Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
E. E. CUMMINGS -
A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
E. E. CUMMINGS -
Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: – you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
E. E. CUMMINGS -
We can never be born enough.
E. E. CUMMINGS -
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.
E. E. CUMMINGS -
I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air Alive with closed eyes to dash against darkness.
E. E. CUMMINGS -
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–
E. E. CUMMINGS -
The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.
E. E. CUMMINGS -
Great men burn bridges before they come to them.
E. E. CUMMINGS -
I love you much most beautiful darling more than anyone on the earth and I like you better than everything in the sky.
E. 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. CUMMINGS -
Sweet springtime is my time is your time is our time for springtime is love time and viva sweet love.
E. E. CUMMINGS -
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E. E. CUMMINGS -
Nobody loses all the time.
E. E. CUMMINGS -
I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
E. E. CUMMINGS -
Existing’s tricky:but to live’s a gift.
E. E. CUMMINGS -
Here’s to opening and upward… and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughing.
E. E. CUMMINGS -
Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: – you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
E. 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.
E. E. CUMMINGS -
Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS -
I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
E. 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. CUMMINGS -
You and I are more than you and I because it’s we.
E. E. CUMMINGS -
I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS