I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
E. E. CUMMINGSYou shall above all things be glad and young.
More E. E. Cummings Quotes
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I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
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America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.
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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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Because you aren’t afraid to kiss the dirt (and consequently dare to climb the sky)
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May my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living.
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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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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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Here’s to opening and upward… and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughing.
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Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.
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To be nobody-but-yourself – in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
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Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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Sweet springtime is my time is your time is our time for springtime is love time and viva sweet love.
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America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.
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Do not hate or fear the artist in yourselves… Honor and love him do not try to possess him. Trust him as nobly as you trust tomorrow. Only the artist in yourself is more truthful than the night.
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Twice I have lived forever in a smile.
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