E. E. Cummings Quotes

Exists no miracle mightier than this: to feel.
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Existence Feeling Magic
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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Dreams Forever God Nature Sky Spirit Thankful Tree
We can never be born enough.
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Born Enough One Liner Satisfaction
You have played, (I think) And broke the toys you were fondest of, And are a little tired now; Tired of things that break, and— Just tired. So am I.
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Break Myself Play Thinking Toy
Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
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Beautiful Question
Twice I have lived forever in a smile.
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Forever Live Myself Smile True Love
Laughing is just another way of showing people your wise.
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Laughter People Wisdom Yourself
I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
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Imagination Live Myself One Liner
The theory of the free press is not that the truth will be presented completely or perfectly in any one instance, but that the truth will emerge from free discussion.
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Born Freedom Perfection Present Theory Truth
A poet is someone who is abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement. Which is to say the highest form of concentration possible: fascination; to report on the electrifying experience of being.
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Creation Existence Experience Movement Poet Possible
Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.
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Fire Heart Love Sea Stars Trust Walk Yourself
Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.
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Alive Death Deep One Liner
Remember one thing only: that it’s you-nobody else-who determines your destiny and decides your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.
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Alive Destiny Determination Inspirational Motivational Remember Yourself
The artist is not a man who describes, but a man who feels.
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Artist Description Difference Feeling Man
Sweet springtime is my time is your time is our time for springtime is love time and viva sweet love.
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Love Ourselves Relationship Spring Time
Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
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Better Fate Kiss Wisdom
Your head is a living forest full of songbirds.
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Bird Head Live Song
Tomorrow is our permanent address.
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Address Ourselves
Progress is a comfortable disease.
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Comfortable One Liner Progress Sick
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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Artist Hate Love Night Trust
Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear.
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Fear Hope Love Silence Voice
The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility.
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Philosophy Possible Reality Wisdom Yourself
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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Fear Hope Love Silence Stars Strength Strong Sun Voice
We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. 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 Listening Ourselves Reveal Risk Spirit Touch Trust Value Wonderful Worth
Because you aren’t afraid to kiss the dirt (and consequently dare to climb the sky)
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Afraid Dare Kiss Sky
Well, write poetry, for God’s sake, it’s the only thing that matters.
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Art God Poetry Writing
The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches.
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Change Nature Soft Touch

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