E.E. Cummings

"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"

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

"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."

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

"Unbeing dead isn't being alive."

"...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."

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

"twice I have lived forever in a smile"

"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."

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

"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."

"Unbeing dead isn't being alive."

"Lovers alone wear sunlight."

"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"

"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."

"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."