The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying ‘anywhere but here’.
E. E. CUMMINGSMay 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.
More E. E. Cummings Quotes
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Somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond.
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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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The eyes of my eyes are opened.
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Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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Twice I have lived forever in a smile.
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
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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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Here’s to opening and upward… and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughing.
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Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
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May my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living.
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A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
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It is with roses and locomotives that my poems are competing.
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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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