E.E. Cummings

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

"Unbeing dead isn't being alive."

"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."

"Unbeing dead isn't being alive."

"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."

"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."

"I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance"

"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."

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

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

"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."

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

"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"

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

"Unless you love someone, nothing else makes sense."

"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."

"I am an i poet."

"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."

"twice I have lived forever in a smile"

"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"