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.
E. E. CUMMINGSYou shall above all things be glad and young.
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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Equality is what does not exist among mortals.
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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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Whenever 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.
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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 whole and more than all.
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Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear.
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The eyes of my eyes are opened.
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An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects.
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Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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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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Here’s to opening and upward… and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughing.
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Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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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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