Time is a tree (this life one leaf) but love is the sky and i am for you just so long and long enough.
E. E. CUMMINGSTime is a tree (this life one leaf) but love is the sky and i am for you just so long and long enough.
E. E. CUMMINGSWhenever 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. CUMMINGSI love you much most beautiful darling more than anyone on the earth and I like you better than everything in the sky.
E. E. CUMMINGSKisses are a better fate than wisdom.
E. E. CUMMINGSTake the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
E. E. CUMMINGSSomewhere 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.
E. E. CUMMINGSWe can never be born enough.
E. E. CUMMINGSAs small as a world as large as alone.
E. E. CUMMINGSA pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
E. E. CUMMINGSI will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air Alive with closed eyes to dash against darkness.
E. E. CUMMINGSTrust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.
E. E. CUMMINGSOne’s not half two. It’s two are halves of one.
E. E. CUMMINGSWell, write poetry, for God’s sake, it’s the only thing that matters.
E. E. CUMMINGSMay my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living.
E. E. CUMMINGSTwice I have lived forever in a smile.
E. E. CUMMINGSHere’s to opening and upward… and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughing.
E. E. CUMMINGS