And now you are and I am and we’re a mystery which will never happen again.
E. E. CUMMINGSIt is with roses and locomotives that my poems are competing.
More E. E. Cummings Quotes
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Lovers alone wear sunlight.
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Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
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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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Because you aren’t afraid to kiss the dirt (and consequently dare to climb the sky)
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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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Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.
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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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For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It’s always our self we find in the sea.
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Love is the whole and more than all.
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We can never be born enough.
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Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear.
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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 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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Existing’s tricky:but to live’s a gift.
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You have played, (I think) And broke the toys you were fondest of, And are a little tired now; Tired of things that break, and— Just tired. So am I.
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