E. E. Cummings on alive
E. E. Cummings134 quotes“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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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.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Great men burn bridges before they come to them.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Nobody loses all the time.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings The voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses.
E. E. CummingsE. 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. CummingsE. E. Cummings You and I are more than you and I because it’s we.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings You and I are more than you and I because it’s we.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings You and I are more than you and I because it’s we.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings 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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