Great men burn bridges before they come to them.
E. E. CUMMINGSIt is with roses and locomotives that my poems are competing.
More E. E. Cummings Quotes
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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.
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Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
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Love is the whole and more than all.
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Someone asked me what home was and all I could think of were the stars on the tip of your tongue, the flowers sprouting from your mouth, the roots entwined in the gaps between your fingers, the ocean echoing inside of your ribcage.
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Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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Lovers alone wear sunlight.
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A poet is someone who is abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement. Which is to say the highest form of concentration possible: fascination; to report on the electrifying experience of being.
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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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You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
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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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Someone asked me what home was and all I could think of were the stars on the tip of your tongue, the flowers sprouting from your mouth, the roots entwined in the gaps between your fingers, the ocean echoing inside of your ribcage.
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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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May my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living.
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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–
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Tomorrow is our permanent address.
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