E.E. Cummings

"life's not a paragraphAnd death i think is no parenthesis"

"twice I have lived forever in a smile"

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."

"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."

"...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."

"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."

"Lovers alone wear sunlight."

"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"

"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."

"Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward."

"may came home with a smooth round stoneas small as a world and as large as alone."

"Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars."

"And now you are and I am and we're a mystery which will never happen again."

"down with hell and heaven and all the religious fussinfinity pleased our parents one inch looks good to us"

"Lovers alone wear sunlight."

"Who can tell truth from falsehood any more?I say it, and you feel it in your hearts:no man or woman on this big small earth.How should our sages miss the mark of life,and our most skillful players lose the game?your hearts will tell you, as my heart has told me:because all know, and no one understands."

"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."

"Unbeing dead isn't being alive."

"listen: there’s a hellof a good universe next door; let’s go"

"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..."