Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit - E.E. Cummings
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. - E.E. Cummings
Only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses. Nobody, not even the rain has such small hands. - E.E. Cummings
I don't know what it is about you that closes and opens; only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all the roses. Nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands. - E.E. Cummings
may came home with a smooth round stoneas small as a world and as large as alone. - E.E. Cummings
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting. - E.E. Cummings
mr youse needn't be so spryconcernin questions artyeach has his tastes but as for ii likes a certain partygimme the he-man's solid blissfor youse ideas i'll match yousea pretty girl who naked isis worth a million statues - E.E. Cummings
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. - E.E. Cummings
a wind has blown the rain away & the sky away & all the leaves away, & the trees stand. i think i, too, have known autumn too long. - E.E. Cummings
a politician is an arse uponwhich everyone has sat except a man - E.E. Cummings
i do not know what it is about you that closesand opens;only something in me understandsthe voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses - E.E. Cummings
... (lady i willtouch you with my mind.) Touchyou, that is all/lightly and you utterly will becomewith infinite care/ the poem which i do not write. - E.E. Cummings
I don't like the memories because the tears come easily, and once again I break my promise to myself for this day. It's a constant battle. a war between remembering and forgetting. - E.E. Cummings
there's time for laughing and there's time for crying— for hoping for despair for peace for longing —a time for growing and a time for dying: a night for silence and a day for singingbut more than all(as all your more than eyes tell me)there is a time for timelessness - E.E. Cummings
life's not a paragraphAnd death i think is no parenthesis - E.E. Cummings
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance - E.E. Cummings
And now you are and I am and we're a mystery which will never happen again. - E.E. Cummings
deeds cannot dream what dreams can do - E.E. Cummings
Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars. - E.E. Cummings
to hell with literaturewe want something redblooded - E.E. Cummings
Such was a poet and shall be and is-who'll solve the depths of horror to defend a sunbeam's architecture with his life: and carve immortal jungles of despair to hold a mountain's heartbeat in his hand. - E.E. Cummings
Unbeing dead isn't being alive. - E.E. Cummings
I fear no fate for you are my fate, my sweet. - E.E. Cummings
twice I have lived forever in a smile - E.E. Cummings
You are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing. - E.E. Cummings
...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. - E.E. Cummings
Humanity i love you because youare perpetually putting the secret oflife in your pants and forgettingit's there and sitting downon itand because you areforever making poems in the lapof death Humanityi hate you - E.E. Cummings
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. - E.E. Cummings
I am an i poet. - E.E. Cummings
l(aleaffalls)oneliness - E.E. Cummings
Lovers alone wear sunlight. - E.E. Cummings
down with hell and heaven and all the religious fussinfinity pleased our parents one inch looks good to us - E.E. Cummings
Unless you love someone, nothing else makes sense. - E.E. Cummings
Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward. - E.E. Cummings
As small as a world as large as alone. - E.E. Cummings
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... - E.E. Cummings
no time agoor else a lifewalking in the darki met christjesus)my heartflopped overand lay stillwhile he passed(asclose as i’m to youyes closermade of nothingexcept loneliness. - E.E. Cummings
Miracles are to come. With you I leave a remembrance of miracles: they are by somebody who can loveand who shall be continually reborn, a human being. - E.E. Cummings
may I be I is the only prayer - E.E. Cummings
listen: there’s a hellof a good universe next door; let’s go - E.E. Cummings