E.E. Cummings

"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"

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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"

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

"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."

"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."

"Lovers alone wear sunlight."

"...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."