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"

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

"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."

"...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."

"twice I have lived forever in a smile"

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

"I am an i poet."

"Lovers alone wear sunlight."

"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"

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

"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."

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

"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."