I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
E. E. CUMMINGS
E. E. CUMMINGS
E. E. Cummings on imagination
E. E. Cummings134 quotes“I imagine that yes is the only living thing.”
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E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings May my heart always be open to little birds, who are the secrets of living. Whatever they sing is better than to know. And if men should not hear them – then men are old.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings You shall above all things be glad and young.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Suppose Life is an old man carrying flowers on his head.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying ‘anywhere but here’.
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E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Here is the deepest secret nobody knows. Here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide. 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 Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.
E. E. CummingsE. 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. CummingsE. E. Cummings And the reason that i laugh and breathe is oh love.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.
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