"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."
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E.E. Cummings
32 quotes
Quotes by E.E. Cummings
"Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward."
"Unbeing dead isn't being alive."
"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."
"twice I have lived forever in a smile"
"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."
"may came home with a smooth round stoneas small as a world and as large as alone."
"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."
"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"
"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"
"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."
"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..."
"I am an i poet."
"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"
"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"
"twice I have lived forever in a smile"
"Unbeing dead isn't being alive."