E. E. Cummings Quotes

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It’s always our self we find in the sea.
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Break Up Deep End Lose Myself Sea Yourself
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
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Day Laughter Oneself Wasted Time
I fear no fate(for you are my fate, my sweet)i want no world(for beautiful you are my world, my true) and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you here is the deepest secret nobody knows.
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Beautiful Fear Love Moon Myself Relationship Secret Sing Sun True World
A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
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Exception Man Politics
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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Bird Heart Live Man Old Secret Sing
You shall above all things be glad and young.
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Young Yourself
Suppose Life is an old man carrying flowers on his head.
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Carry Flower Head Life Man Old
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’.
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Health Money Place Poor Rich Sad Sick Travel
Equality is what does not exist among mortals.
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Equality Existence Mortal
Here is the deepest secret nobody knows. Here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide. And this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)
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Deep Growth Hope Life Love Mindset Myself Relationship Secret Sky Soul Tree
Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
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Fall In Love Yourself
Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.
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Goodness Let Go Listening Universe
If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little – somebody who is obsessed by Making.
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Creation Obsession Poet Writing
And the reason that i laugh and breathe is oh love.
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Breathe Laughter Love Myself Reason
An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects.
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Fight Intelligence Lost Person
Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
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Advice Care Deep Love Wisdom
Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.
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Alive Yourself
The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.
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Be Yourself Challenge Hard World Yourself
You shall above all things be glad and young For if you’re young, whatever life you wear it will become you; and if you are glad whatever’s living will yourself become.
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Deep Happiness Life Live Nature Transformation Wisdom Young
Somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond.
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Beyond Happiness Myself Travel
Time is a tree (this life one leaf) but love is the sky and i am for you just so long and long enough.
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Enough Life Sky Time Tree Yourself
You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
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Love Moon Relationship Stars Sun Yourself
The symbol of all art is the Prism. The goal is unrealism. The method is destructive. To break up the white light of objective realism, into the secret glories which it contains.
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Art Break Deep Destruction Glory Goal Light Reality Secret White
One’s not half two. It’s two are halves of one.
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Deep Mathematics Oneself Wisdom
It is with roses and locomotives that my poems are competing.
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Competition Myself Poem Rose
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
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Believe Experience Human Reveal Risk Spirit Wonderful
To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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Creation Deep Destroy Wisdom

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